Okay, I am putting my mutterings where my mouth is.
Having discussed (ad nauseum) writing for writing's sake, for necessity's sake, for being driven-to-it's sake...for I-just-should-because I reeeeally-can's sake. Here it be.
A place for my thoughts, musings, ideas (the full spectrum from stupid to hmmmm to [possibly] brilliant), observations, absurdities, opinions, visions, et cetera. A Blog of My Own to vent my thoughts (and occasional spleen).
A sincere merci beaucoup beaucoup to both Cathy and Kelleigh, each of whom have plunked the question/idea hard against my skull: Why not start a blog?
So, here goes, for whatever it is and whatever it may become.
My thoughts today begin with Anu Garg, founder of wordsmith.org and the blisteringly brilliant (and contagious) A Word A Day listserv (see www.wordsmith.org or this interesting article about him from November 2003 www.rediff.com/news/2003/nov/05spec.htm) He started AWAD in 1994 "to share his love of and fascination with words". A Native Hindi speaker, he astutely points out that to speak the English language "you know words from a hundred different languages". Amazing how someone for whom English is at least a second language (I have not been able as yet to discover with which languages besides Hindi and English he might be familiar) may not only fall in love with English but base a fun and fulfilling career around exploring and sharing the English Language with hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Zoinks! to say the least...
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