the other day i asked my wife who always began their stories with that line. told her i'd give her a gold star for the day if she could tell me. guess it helped that when i was a kid my big brother had a whole set of snoopy / charlie brown books that i read all the time.
typically the beginning of something, a preface, book cover, or something along those lines, needs to be able to grab the reader and shout to them that this is something worth reading; something chocked full of information and useful tidbits of drivel. the old adage of not judging a book by it's cover is, in my eyes, half correct. i liken it to a rusty building; you can liven it up by giving it a new coat of paint but underneath the shell of the building is still crap, still rusty, and you still have the insides which may not have been fixed up or repaired. a book or article or magazine may not have an ounce of newsworthy or compelling thoughts but if the cover or headline is catchy enough it'll bring even the most pessimistic reader to it at least for the first couple sentences or paragraphs.
well, this won't be catchy. this is nothing more than me spouting off thoughts, opinions, mindless banter that i want to talk about. daily headlines, what i see, thought, did, my opinions, who's a hot topic,... whatever strikes my fancy. i wrote a book a couple years ago that's never been published. it was like my memoir. i wanted it for our kids to read when i'm old and gray and gone. that way they, or their kids, can see who i was and possibly why i did some of the things i did. same for this.
anyway,... let the blogging begin
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