A Blogging Beginning

My daughter suggested to me today that a blog might be a good outlet for my writing. I thank her for that suggestion. She just might be right. I recently watched Julia and Julie and saw the value of Julie's blogging, a frustrated writer looking for something to do that she loved, and something to write about. She chose Julia Child's recipes. I choose to reflect upon, write about, and share experienes and thoughts about this particular stage of my life.

There must be millions of retired baby boomers like me who have similar concerns and fears and hopes and dreams. Maybe I will manage, eventually, to connect with a few.

I've given up my dream of publishing a novel. I always wanted to be a writer, and actually, I now realize, always have been, throughout my career, in a variety of ways. Now I've decided that the joy is in the writing itself, the process, and not the publishing.

So this is a new writing adventure, a blogging beginning.