Well, here goes. This is my first real attempt at any sort of journaling or blogging... I read a lot of books & find that as time goes on I remember less & less about specific books and end up with a general impression {that one made my head hurt, this one really motivated me, this one convicted me, etc}. I decided that from then on I will give myself a detailed blow by blow book report as I read a book. I even had a notebook especially for that purpose.

That was three books ago & I still haven't written anything. I have atrocious handwriting and sometimes even I can’t discern what I had written – also I just don’t enjoy writing. Typing, on the other hand, isn’t so bad. I can usually type faster than I can write, it allows me to organize my thoughts better {cut & paste}, AND I can read it later on.

SO > I was thinking that if I just kept a text document at home or work, I would have to email it back & forth or disk-shuttle it. No thanks. By blogging, I can access this from any computer. Now all I have to do is read by the computer for those sudden ideas, or perhaps keep a document open while I’m reading then post it all at once at the end of the day.

I’ll try to stay on topic and not ramble too much, but I’m afraid of several things: That those who read this will see how sporadic my reading habits are {starts & spurts}, will see how sloppy my first drafts are, will wonder about why that passage impacted me, and that my quoting of copyrighted text might get me in trouble. Up front, let me say that I will be quoting some passages, please don’t prosecute. So far this blog is deemed ‘private’ – we’ll see if it goes public.