I just love my blog. I am a writing addict, really. In prior times, before I had this fabulous content delivery system known as “Blogger” available to me, I would write VOLUMINOUS emails to everyone that would answer. Not to mention the ones that didn’t.

The joy of writing them was enough.

Even before email, long ago in the 80s, I used to write letters to people. I had several pen pals I wrote to every week. It felt wrong to me if I didn’t write at least 4 pages. To many, I wrote upwards of 20 pages. Honestly, I’m not sure what I had to say. I didn’t really have any exciting life as a homeschooled teenager in the remote suburbs of Alaska. But I wrote anyway.

But now we have the internet! There is so much good stuff to read. People generate content every day, scads of it. I don’t know how many hundreds of people have their own blogs, and not all of it is self-referential psychotherapy. Not all.

There are all those clever new guys that made stabs at politicians and public figures. And Blogcritics, reviewing music and movies.

A lot of those folks seem to be quick quippers, dashing off little paragraphs.

I tend towards multiple pages. It makes me feel like looking sideways in the mirror.

“Does my blog look fat?”

I found this today, from Openletters.net

The fact is, reading on the web – or at least reading anything longer than a few hundred words – just isn’t that pleasant an activity. And yet the Internet seems like a tremendous opportunity to deliver great writing to a far-flung readership. This is precisely the paradox that has burned up hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital over the last few years. And still the question remains: how can this cool tool be used to distribute information with a little depth, with a little soul?

Preach it!
That is some of what I am trying to do for you, my readers, known and unknown. A little depth and a little soul.

My tolerance for reading more than a few hundred words on the net might not be shared by everyone. But I hope that I make it worthwhile, the PageDown button not too tiresome, and my chubby blog makes itself worth your time.