Introduction

After many months of consideration, I have finally started a blog.  I expect I am significantly behind the eight-ball on this.  I think that had blogs been around when I was in college I would have had one.  Instead I maintained personal journals filled with angst, chemically induced ramblings, and all sorts of neurotic, borderline psychotic rants.  Ahhh…youth.

I have always seen myself as an essayist.  I have things to say and “stories” to tell but not fiction.  I cannot write fiction for the same reason I cannot act.  I have a very hard time “putting on” a character. Something you need to be able to do (and at will) if you want to portray someone who isn’t you – on stage, on camera, or on paper.  Sadly, never been my gig.  And I just didn’t see much money in writing essays.

Anyway – what you can expect to find here at any given time will be my late-evening thoughts on a topic-du-jour, an argument I’ve been working on all day on some subject (probably spawned by someone saying something stupid on the radio), or a psycho-analytic debate that needs to be laid out in order to be properly organized, reviewed, and ultimately put to bed. 

As any worthy writer, I welcome all comments, both concurring and dissenting opinions.  However I request that if you have something to say, you post your comments in a manner that promotes reasonably intelligent discourse on the topic. We can agree to disagree if you like, but keep in mind that opinions cannot be invalidated. Like anyone’s feelings about something, they simply are.  They don’t need to be justified; suffice it to say that they exist.

Now then.  Shall we?