Welcome to my world!\u00a0 I\u2019m excited to be blogging at the Patheos community, after about a year and a half of blogging on my own with a simple Blogger blog.<\/p>\n
Happily, the tech staff was able to move all my old posts over here, so I invite you to plunge into the archives to see what I write about.<\/p>\n
I am all over the map in terms of the topics I\u2019m interested in.\u00a0 Is Obama a Christian?\u00a0 Does Islam need a Reformation?\u00a0 When should you retire, and, for that matter, what should retirement look like in the future?\u00a0 How, if at all, should the Catholic Church change to accommodate its membership decline?\u00a0 What\u2019s going on in Detroit?\u00a0 You want opinions, I\u2019ve got them.\u00a0 And, yes, I\u2019m pleased to have been invited to blog at the Catholic Channel, but readers who have followed me here from Blogger (and I hope some of you have. . . ) will know already that I\u2019m fairly heavy on economics, politics, and social policy, and I don\u2019t expect that to change.<\/p>\n
Now, mind you, I try to limit myself to writing about things where I actually have something to say \u2013 I pretty much figure that anyone who reads my writing is also following the major Right\/Center-Right bloggers, columnists and news sites, and if all I\u2019ve got to say is, \u201cAnn Althouse\/Megan McArdle\/Charles Krauthammer was soooo right when she\/he said. .\u00a0 . \u201c then that\u2019s not much of a value-add, is it?\u00a0 And there are some topics where, yes, I\u2019m frustrated, everyone is frustrated, but I don\u2019t have anything to offer; although, then again, there are times when I just really want to vent, and blogging is my platform for that, so as to not drive my husband crazy, or fritter away my time on comment sections of other blogs (where I generally just get irritated:\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ve got this great thing to say (whatever it is) and no one is listening!\u201d), or write yet another letter to the editor.<\/p>\n
You say you haven\u2019t seen anything by me in your local newspaper?\u00a0 Yeah, well, back in the days when I diligently submitted letters, I could never seem to make them pithy enough to make it into print.<\/p>\n
But I enjoy this whole blogging project.\u00a0 I like to imagine that, if I plug away at it, it\u2019ll help me figure out some way of Getting Involved, in the real world, or even a career change, but, at the same time, my youngest is eight, and there\u2019s homework to supervise, and dinner to make, and any number of things to do which make blogging a nice hobby while keeping my very-flexible day job.<\/p>\n
I have also resolved to be more self-disciplined about blogging \u2013 proofreading and editing what I\u2019ve written, trying to add images, finding the right link rather than \u201cI read an article once that said. .\u00a0 .\u201d, adding tags to the posts, in general cleaning up posts that turn out to be a jumble of thoughts due to a tendency to think while, rather than before, writing.\u00a0 Will I succeed?\u00a0 Most of the time, whatever it is that I\u2019m writing about, I\u2019m too impatient for all the details, and want to pound my thoughts out and hit \u201cpublish\u201d right away. So I hope you\u2019ll join me on this endeavor, give me your reaction to my thoughts, however half-baked they may be, and develop a conversation.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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