Day 1

So here it begins - I am a blogger. My new year's resolution this year is write more. The only way I could think to do that is to write every day and to write in a way that I was accountable to the people who read this, aka my mom. I didn't want to start a mom-blog or a cancer-survivor-blog or a what-i-am-watching-on-tv-blog but undoubtedly all of those topics will come into play. It doesn't matter what I write, how much or how well - it only matters that I write every day for 364 more days.

At my writing classes in High School my teacher would always have us start our writing exercises with a line, a quotation to get us going. And then we would sit and write for 20 minutes without stopping. And sometimes we would write amazing things and sometimes it was so bad we wouldn't want to read it back to ourselves, let alone the whole class. But the best part, the most important part, was the experience of writing. It was the opportunity to sit in a quiet room and write whatever you want and realize that not even you knew what was going to appear on the pages.

I hope that this blog will be about sharing my observations, my feelings and my experiences. I hope that every once in a while I get brave enough to post works of fiction and to write again without worrying what will appear. Most of all I hope that I actually do it and from this experience comes a rekindling of the passion I have always had for writing and a commitment to keep going.

And as nap time for Josie and Owen nears an end, I will end the post for today and think about what I will share tomorrow.

Happy new year of writing to me.