A New Beginning

Greetings All!

I return! Ta-da!!!!

OK, so not such a big deal. I'm pretty sure no one even noticed that I'd left...

Seriously, I started a blog many years ago. I called it "Gripes and Pipedreams," and focused on the things that I either liked or disliked about current events. I began eagerly, and I posted a few times to it, too. It turned out, though, that I wasn't dedicated or consistent enough, and after just a few submissions, I stopped. I think that happens to a great many would-be bloggers.

Even so, my urge to blog never quite left me, and so, more than five years later, I return. I am choosing a new format, a wider topic range, if you will, encompassing more than simply my own social and political observations. Oh, I am likely to spout off at times too, but in addition I intend to wax philosophic on whatever theme seems appropriate, be it fishing or football, love or finance, travel or cuisine. I am just going to write.

And you? If any of you ever decide to read any of this, I hope you find at least some of it amusing. Beyond that, if anything I write encourages you to think just a little, or suggests to you that there might just be a perspective different from your own, that's all to the good.

And if not, I imagine YOU won't be reading this anyway!

;-)

Well, here goes, my second attempt at a self-indulgent, pseudo-intellectual web log, mostly intended just to amuse myself. If you wandered in here by mistake, take the opportunity now and run!

As a big believe in recycling, I shall first post some of my entries from the old blog. Once that is done, I am going to try to post new material more regularly. Please feel free to comment. If I don't think you stroke my ego enough, I'll just block your comment anyway...