Revive

It's time to start blogging again.

Of course, that raises the question of whether I have enough time to be blogging. Can I really give this my all? And should I? Should my entire personality be wrapped up in a couple lines of text, some minor graphics surrounding it, and a URL? While I'm certain that question deserves a more sophisticated answer, my gut response is no. However, I have that answer for a couple of reasons. First, I'd like to think I'm more complicated than a computer program can capture, but there are some days I'm not entirely sure. Second, I can be very anti-technology sometimes. Sure, I can full well acknowledge, logically, all the many values and benefits of it. Yet something in me rebels against a Kindle, or the way kids less than three times my age are playing games on an iPad rather than exercising their imaginations. But that's a rant for another time. Third and finally, I think part of me just likes to remain mysterious. Even if I could put my entire personality into a blog, I don't think I would. I'd be too accessible that way, and as much as I love giving myself challenges, I'd like to give myself as a challenge to others.

So there it is. The challenge is before you. Will you understand my writing? Will you take the time to try?

And why should you, anyway? What makes my blog special, unique, or different than the hundreds (thousands?) of others floating around in cyberspace? Why should you read me?

Well, here's where I may get annoying to some (potential) readers, but I'm not going to tell you. I could tell you that I'm a crazy chick that rock climbs and does martial arts, but also pursues chill activities like reading and writing, but I'm not going to. I could give you a list of all the classes I have taken and bask in the glory of my credentials, but I'm not going to. Rather, read me if you like how (or what) I write. I want my writing to stand (or fall) on its own merit. So I'm not going to tell you to read me, in the same way that a book in Barnes and Noble can't cry out from the shelves. You have to go, pick it up, and try it.

Only then will you know what you'll find.