I'm Baaack!

Okay people.  I know I have been away for a while. For those of you who don't know, I have been doing some transcription to make extra money.  This has caused me to spend less time on the computer doing things I love (i.e. writing, Pinterest : ], etc.) because my body and eyes don't like me to stay on the computer for hours and hours on end.  But, I have decided that I need to set myself some goals.  After watching Julie and Julia (again) I see how much I am like Julie in that I have a hard time finishing anything.  So, beginning the last week in August, I will challenge myself to write EVERY DAY until my daughter comes home from college for the following summer.  Every day I will write something.  Write anything.  And then blog about what I wrote or blog WHAT I wrote.  (Hopefully these pages will not be silent between now and August.  I plan for it to be a time to gear up and practice writing more often.)  These upcoming entries may range from what I think about something going on in the world to a poem to thoughts about (or excerpts from) the book I have been working on for the past seven or so years.  Once in a while, I warn you, I will probably write about something that is going on in my life personally.  For me, writing has always been a form of therapy.  I have never really been able to keep a journal in the sense that you sit down every day, reflect and write.  I write emotionally - like some people eat emotionally.  I do my best writing when I am down.  That is not to say that everything I write is (or will be) depressing.  That is what is so therapeutic about it!  Usually, it helps all the junk to flow out so that I can have a fresh perspective, which ends up reminding me how much I have to be grateful for.  So the question that is currently rattling around in my head is this:  "Why in the heck do I think that anyone cares what I think?".  I don't know if I will gain any more followers along this journey in the coming months or if anyone will read anything I write at all.  Of course I hope to provoke some deep thinking and occasionally make someone laugh, but the real reason I am doing this is for myself.  So, reader, whether you are there or not, whether you return or not, I will continue to write...because I love it.