Just Me: Here I Am

I have thought about writing for a long time.  While I excelled in high school I wasn't that great in college the first time around and remember very clearly getting a poor grade on the first college paper I ever wrote.  My dad was a good writer and so is my older sister.  As I have aged, or rather matured, learned, grown, expanded in knowledge and experience life--however you want to put it--I find that the things that rattle inside my brain must, certainly and of course, be for others to hear...that is why I talk so much.  You remember that commercial years back for a remote medical emergency response service that showed the old lady on the floor saying to the "voice" on the other end,  "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up."  Yeah, well, that is me only it is,  "Help, I started talking and I can't shut up!"  My mom pointed out a t-shirt once with that saying and told me to buy it and wear it.  Unfortunately (not) most t-shirts don't fit me and look terrible on me so, darn it, I could get it.

Anyway...I was having an IM conversation on Facebook the other day (I will save my thoughts on Facebook for another time) and she was, while we were IM-ing, looking at some pictures of her daughter who is currently teaching in another country.  Her daughter has a blog about her adventures and she was saying I should blog too.  Well--as much as I like to talk and write I still thought,  "Who the heck wants to read what I have to say."  I tucked it in the back of my mind, however, never thinking I would do it.  It seems a tad bit egotistical to just put my words out there as if what I think or say or feel or experience is even remotely interesting to other people.  At least when it is written it becomes the reader's choice.  (A personal revelation just took place as I wrote that--if I speak I take away others' choice.  Makes me want to be more careful what I say.) 

So here is the first posting of my blog...well, while it will appear first, it is not the first thing I wrote for my blog.  My first writing for my blog follows this entry.  I can tell you as you read you will see me, just me.  That is why I named my blog "Just Me."  I'm not fancy or exotic, pretending or masking, or anything super, awesome, or magnificent.  This blog will be just who I am, and if what I say has a positive affect on you in any way, then the this blog's first purpose for existing has been fulfilled.  The second is so I can write with purpose.  Let me say one more thing...just read my next posting before deciding if you will follow this blog.  Welcome to "Just Me."