Chapter the First: Why am I doing this?

This is one screwy internet.
One minute, you're reading an "R" rated joke from some guy you used to work with, the next, you're reading inspirational material from someone who lives a couple of towns over who you've not seen for 30 years.
My e-mail list includes my mother, my siblings, my wife, my ex, my children, a couple of co-workers, my lawyer, my son's teachers... could be here for most of the night just naming them all and trying to make sense out of the friends I have just on e-mail.
Then there's Facebook.
Just in the last month I have renewed acquaintances with people I worked with on Yearbook staff, most of my nieces and nephews, my Aunt Sara's grandchildren, and that list goes on and on and on.
Each and every person I deal with have been a part of my life in one way or another. Like George Bailey in "It's a Wonderful Life", I'm rich with friends and acquaintances. It works and so far, life has seemed to work out pretty darn well, thank-you very much.
So, why take the time and the effort to learn a new art form - infecting the internet with my rants and raves? Why not? I've been a frustrated writer for a number of years, I may as well take advantage of this opportunity and bore a number of people all at once instead of doing it one person at a time on the aforementioned e-mail and Facebook.
I may share some of what I see elsewhere or may suggest another person's point of view worth taking the time to look into. Just this past week, I suggested to a niece that she might be interested in a microfarm being run by a brother-in-law I have yet to meet in person. I'm also rolling around the idea as to how to run an on-line reunion of those folks who were part of my High School Yearbook.
Anyhoo, this is just the first stab at this blogging thing. Hope you stick around!

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