Why am I doing this?

For some weeks now I have been reading blogs. It all started with my son, who shared with me his posts. I clicked on links from his blog and feel like I have traveled the world. I told him that some of what I read is over my head. I read blogs that are for the most part written by young adults, and I find it very interesting to read their thoughts and wonder why I did not have all these profound thoughts in my younger years. Maybe I did and just did not express them.

As I was talking with my son about all the blogs, he encouraged me to think about blogging and to write down some of my memories of my childhood and young adulthood, my experiences as an elementary school teacher, as well as my experiences in Haiti, when I lived there before I was married.

So that is what I shall attempt to do. I find that it is much easier to journal this way than by writing it all about longhand.