OK.....so here goes.......

OK, so my friend Shari has been dogging me to start blogging. Why? Will it bring me some internal liberation that will somehow trump my sometimes uptight self? I doubt it. But, I chose to plow ahead into the unknown with the promise of possibly meeting people with similar interests and viewpoints, or perhaps even more exciting.....meeting people with conflicting viewpoints and divergent interests! OK, Shar, here I am, globally exposed. Perhaps I will be found to be an unappreciated genius (gee, that'd be nice), or possibly (and more probably) My fate is to be the village idiot on a much grander scale. Either way......here goes.......