Starting the Blog Conversation

Posted by Joan Silber on Apr 11, 2015 | 2 comments

A Blog.

This is a blog.

But what IS a Blog?

Is that the same as asking what is a Rose? Is a Rose just a word that rhymes with nose and is easy to use in verse and prose? Something you set by your nose and sends a scintillating scent? Or an industry in Damascus and Ecuador that can translate into cash? And just why is it supposed to be romantic to spread rose petals on a bridal bed?

Andrea Brownstein left our home April 3, and told me I should be writing a blog.

“People” will want to read what you think and write, she told me.

She taught English in the summers at Oxford and mentors a published author.

But what’s a blog?

A mix between something that is BLAH and a HOG?!

Or a Bee that lives in a dead log? Beware the BeeLog or it may sting you.

Something that sounds undesirable.

I decided it would be a structure that would discipline me to write — something I have longed to do for too long a time.

I looked it up: Wikipedia: A blog (a truncation of the expression weblog)[1] is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries (“posts”) typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first).

So it is a log , like a sailor’s daily log of events of the day at sea, it is an individual’s daily journal of his/her journey in the sea of daily life. And discrete — individualized; not discreet — prudent!

So here is mine.
Welcome to my blah-hog.

Welcome aboard my ship, my slip of words. I invite you to travel with me on my journeys.

And be sure to enter the conversation with your thoughts.