whew, i did it. broke the ice and put something on my blog at last. writing is so scary, what if you get halfway through a thought and then decide it's awful? totally trite and possibly incoherent? then you have to start alllll over and hope the next one is better. mostly everything i write goes into a notebook i have that no one ever sees so it doesn't matter if anything only makes sense to me. after all, i'm the only one reading it. hopefully this will be an enlightening experience that gets more of my writing out in the world. we'll see. : ]