Getting started

I don't feel like a blog kind of guy.  And quite frankly I usually write to a greater purpose, such as publication or teaching materials.  But I love to write, so I'm willing to give it a go.

As I am practicing it, a blog should have spontaneity as I am making this up as I go, rather than carefully writing it and vetting it.  Fair enough.  This is your chance to see my writing with all the warts.

I have desired a website for about fifteen years.  And now that it is here, I am amazed at the amount of work it is.  Attempting to hyperlink pages in an intelligent way, while using a web builder that does not really anticipate the needs of someone like me, is a challenge.  In fact, it's another effing learning experience.  Such is life.

To spice this up I'll admit to my greatest fear.  Homonym errors.  My mother did a fabulous job of training me to get all homonyms and apostrophes correct on the initial draft.  In 1987 I was hit by a car.  I was severely physically damaged, but I thought I was cognitively fine.  Until I got out of the hospital bed, wrote a few things, and proof-read them.  I shouted out loud!  I had lost all ability to get homonyms and apostrophes perfect on the first turn through.

Sometimes such cognitive function returns with time.  As I write this it has been exactly 28 years, and there is no sign of my regaining that function.  I'm not going to hold my breath.

That said, I can't notice that I had one poem published before getting my neurons scrambled, and a thousand or so since.  Perhaps it has been a positive contributor.  

Either way, it scares me to put my grammatical vulnerability on the firing line.  But then everything scares me, and almost nothing stops me: witness this blog entry.  I think that's quite enough for the day.