  Hey, so first post. This blog is something I've been meaning to do for a while now, but two things have sort of gotten the ball rolling: 1) I recently read some of my writing in public, which made me realize that the contents of my journal, the poems and mini-essays and all that, don't actually have to languish privately just because they're kinda messy or brief or whatever -- people still like it! 2) I've been posting to ILX regularly now, which has a) increased my belief in the value of web-publishing in general, and b) made me more comfortable with the whole blog format for my own writing. I'm hoping to post some of what I've written there on this site, and vice versa. Here goes nothin'! 
