Blogging

A blog is a curious thing. It resembles a diary, but diaries are normally private matters not for public consumption. There is a desire on the part of the blogger to make his or her thoughts known to the wider world, perhaps based upon a need for popularity or recognition. This is (or should be) balanced with the humility of knowing that said thoughts might not be particularly interesting or, worse, might be offensive to some reader out there who stumbles upon them. Is a blogger who publishes whatever happens to be on his mind being courageous, insensitive, or boorish, like a guy who buttonholes you at a cocktail party and blabs on and on about baseball stats or hog futures or something else you couldn’t care less about?

This is what I’m up against at the moment. I should probably rename this “The Reluctant Blogger”. Oh well…. With an audience of about four, I’m not too worried.