Allow me to reintroduce myself.

First, let me apologize for my post yesterday. I realize it was a meandering start to something which, I admit, is still not fully formed. It probably didn't provide you with much direction on where this blog is headed - it certainly didn't for me.

But now, please allow me to backtrack a bit and explain some of the reasoning behind why I even decided to begin this blog.

It began two weeks ago as an assignment for my Honors English Colloquium, and after my first attempt to post to my professor’s blog failed and several classmates complained about technical difficulties, my professor abandoned the project altogether. Now I’m stuck with an empty blog and nothing to do with it but what blogs were originally intended: candid writing.

I’m a magazine journalism major. I love writing. It’s the one passion that has been with me my entire life. From the first bedtime story my dad read to me (one of the Bernstein Bear books), I’ve always wanted to be a writer. The way my mom tells it, as soon as I was old enough to understand what stories were, I wanted to write my own. Even before I could write myself, I would dictate little stories to my mom, illustrate them myself, and take them to preschool for my teachers to read (whether they did or not, I can’t really say). That love of words has stuck with me and will hopefully lead me to a life-long career if I work hard enough.

Journalism is what I want to do. Of course, I’d love to be a novelist, but I’m not that creative. So instead I follow my brother’s advice to me: “God gives you the story. You just need to tell it.”

And that’s what I’m going to try to do, in my reporting and in this blog. Hopefully this blog, however, will be a little more free and creative than my news stories.

It’s actually a very good thing that my professor’s project didn’t pan out. I’ve wanted to start a blog for years, but I never had the time or the motivation to figure it out for myself. Mainly though, I never knew where to begin.

Now I have a starting point, and that’s good enough for today, I suppose. I need to run and grab dinner before a meeting with my editor. I have no idea how frequently I will post, or what this blog will become. I have a sickening feeling this blog won't see more than a handful of posts each year, so forgive me.

I don't have a true mission, other than to make this a snapshot of my life in some way; just me and this life as I view it.

So good evening, friends. And welcome to this piece of my world.