Why have a blog? Some say it is to stroke your own ego. I have a blog not because I am full of a sense of self-importance. I use it to vent to the world out there, to say my piece, to free myself of ideas that I have, and to let those ideas “out” into the world, into free circulation. I blog because I read blogs, as a lurker most of the time, and as a participant at other times. I have friends who read this blog and hopefully enjoy it. I think.

But my family doesn’t ever read it. My husband does, and I am kind of glad for that. I get feedback, I know he’s listening. My sister thinks I am insane for “exposing” myself like this. And I don’t exactly want my boss reading this all the time, though it shouldn’t matter if they did. I consider my boss to be my friend. No one in my family reads this, even though I have told them all about it. Actually taken them to this site. Nothing. When I had a webpage, no one used it. I was hurt, and I am still hurt a little. But that’s life, I guess. Some of us are on the highway, and some of us are more comfortable on bicycles.

I encourage everyone to get a blog, not because everyone has the best writing, but because I think blogging helps, I find it fascinating to read my friends’ blogs, to almost voyeuristically see into their thoughts. It’s like reading a diary, without the teenage angst. I am not worried about everyone reading my blog. I know it’s online, so I say what I want and eat the rest.

A few of my friends have blogs, namely Carmen and Anton, and I was kindly told about Carmen’s blog, I found out about Anton’s through Carmen’s blog. I wonder if anyone else I know has blogs. I wonder if I could find them…

Should I take out an ad?