WHY??
Well, I'm well qualified. I have years of experience failing in my journal writing endeavors. I have dutifully neglected decades worth of journals, everything from my very first pink vinyl-bound lock-and-key style Dear Diary to my last abandoned blog. And if you don't try, how can you fail?
So here I am. New blog, no followers, which is maybe for the best. Alone with that misguided glimmer of hope that I will have something to say, and actually say it. My life is quite interesting - fascinating, actually. I am the mother of four year old twins and a an emergency medicine doctor. Mama + Doc, get it? Plus I'm a wife, a friend, a sister, an aunt, a teacher, a cook, a knitter, a photographer, a cyclist, a volunteer, and plenty else. When I'm old and decrepit, I'd like to remember some of these things. Plus my sister in law Karin just published a beautiful book of her amazing blog, Quoddy News, and I'm jealous. That's something else I am: a jealous person. Also sometimes petulant.
Anyway, here's to a new year of writing stuff down! If you don't like moms, doctors, or any of the other stuff I am, don't read this blog. If you read it anyway and it annoys you, don't worry - it probably won't last long.
Today's entry: Jack's list of Things He Doesn't Know. There are four. They are:
1. How bad guys grow
2. What birds' bones look like
3. How leaves change colors
4. How cars get fixed.
That is all.
yessss. i think i was your first follower. do i get extra points for being on facebook right when you posted the link? hope so. love you my dearest auntie. am very excited to read your words. xoox
ReplyDeleteI LOVE Jack's list. And you. And the way you say the funniest things ALL the time.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the best thing about a blog?
It's not pink vinyl, it doesn't have lines, and you can't lock it up.
Eager reader, FOURTH Follower!
As a devoted follower of Karin's blog may I just chime in to say -- yes I too like Jack's list.
ReplyDeleteMary (a NSCAD colleague of your sister-in-law)
AWESOME! I vote for awesome twin and emergency in B'more and cooking extravaganza posts OFTEN.
ReplyDeleteErratum: Karin's beautiful book was compiled from Visible Poetry, her OTHER awesome blog. http://visiblepoetry.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteWell, I never read your other blog, and right now all I can say is that I am getting a great laugh, or rather fulfilling chuckle ~ I love Jack's list!
ReplyDeleteI love your blog so far! I have read it backward, as I do many things, and discovered Jack's list last. I can honestly say I taught him why leaves change colors...maybe he just needs a review...every Expert does from time to time, you know :)
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