It's a Blue Moon New Year's eve

It's a Blue Moon New Year's eve and I'm starting a blog. I have debated whether and when to start a blog and now seems as good of time as any. As a matter of fact, now is the only time available to start a blog and it just so happens that it's New Year's eve and apparently, there's a blue moon tonight.

The clock just turned 10 pm (here in the Mountain Time Zone) and the New Year has begun in New York City and other significant places in the Eastern part of our country. One of my neighbors set off a short booming firework to signify the new year around 10 pm, I am wondering if he'll set off any fireworks for the Central Time zone, hopefully not, because, well, just because I like to complain about my noisy neighbor and surely the 12 midnight around here will be a bit raucus, even though I live in a fairly quiet western city.

Enough about that.

I want to be able to call myself a "blogger" and then perhaps a "writer." I've toyed around with the idea of being a writer for most of my adult life. I've had many half-starts, completed some works, studied literature and drama at the University level, even worked in a publishing company for a short stint.

There are so many topics of personal relevance I could expound upon. Mental illness in families, parenting, giftedness, celiac disease, death, drama, dogs, I don't know. I am not going to limit myself at this point. I should have said earlier, that for now, my writing is totally selfish. I am writing to satisfy my own need. I am daring myself to put my often mundane musings outside of myself in a blog and hoping for the best. If I discover that after I have written a few blogs that I want to focus more in a certain area, then I will, but for now I'm just getting my feet wet and daring myself to write, well, I hope more than once in a blue moon.

~Liz