Reading and Writing in the Blogosphere
I used to want to be a writer. I used to want to be a lot of things along the way in my 40 years of being on the planet. Let’s review those things:
- A ballerina
- An equestrian
- An accountant
- A writer (newspaper, magazine)
- A musician
- A caterer
- A music librarian
- A music transcriber (electronically)
- A computer geek (for lack of a better term)
- Creator of table tents, menus, etc.
- Music teacher (marching band)
- Web designer
Wow, that’s quite a list! I have actually done a few of those things, plus some others that aren’t listed. I count myself lucky that I am doing one of the things on my list right now. Working as a project manager for a food and beverage, wine and spirits marketing company, I am fulfilling the table tents, menus, etc. desire. It’s great! It’s not always graphic design, but I get to do it some! And I am working on websites on the side sometimes. So it’s all good.
Except I miss music, and I miss writing.
I made a promise to myself, hubby and munchkin that I would do more with music this year. I have my flute, piccolo, Irish flute, penny whistle, Chinese flute, recorder, bagpipes, bowed psaltry, keyboard, and 3 guitars to choose from. To be fair, one guitar is hubby’s and two are munchkins, but they add to the mix of items to choose from. All these, and I’ve picked up 2 instruments a couple of times.
Pathetic.
I vow to do better. One of the blogs I read, Karen Cheng’s Snippets of Life, Karen updates her New Year’s list every month. I thought it was a good idea, so I’ll try it. Starting in August I will post my list for the year and see where I am so far. I’ll warn you now, I haven’t accomplished much on it, so don’t expect greatness.
Another thing I wanted to start doing was write more. Well that starts now. I have been reading many blogs of late. They have been fantastic (as far as I’m concerned.) I will list them all over there to the right in the blogroll, so look for them and visit them. You’ll get a chuckle from some, a bit of knowledge from others, and a window to the arts in yet others. Enjoy.
Having read these blogs, it makes me heartily miss writing. Hence “Well that starts now” up there a few lines ago. I am going to write more often. Period. And you can’t stop me. I can stop me (and hopefully I won’t), but you can’t. This is my soapbox and I can write about anything, anyway, anytime.
So I hope you come to visit and see what I’m up to. I hope I’m more entertaining from here forward than I have been in the past. Drop me a line and let me know. I’ll also be doing a little more with the site design as time permits, so watch for little things.
Here’s to writing!
