It may be obvious that I have a new commitment to blogging.  I've had the blog for about a year, but I think I wrote less than ten entries last year.  As a part of my Daniel Fast discipline, I decided to blog every day for 21 days.  I am actually quite interested in writing, and like most things in life, I've noticed I get better at it (more efficient, anyway), when I do it regularly.  So here it is, my seventh entry in seven days.  

At times I feel unbelievably self-indulgent about this medium.   I mean, why not just write a journal?  Why do I feel the need to go public?  It's not like I'm a blogger with a particular theme or message.  I'm not curing cancer--or even working my way through Julia Child's cookbook. I'm just talking about whatever I feel like talking about.  

However, I have really enjoyed reading other people's blogs.  I never think of other bloggers as self-indulgent.  I have gotten to know my sister-in-law, her sister and brother, my cousin, and a few others much better by reading their blogs.  In fact, these are some of the people who have encouraged me to do this.  Also, I love getting comments on my blog (although it also freaks me out a little, since it reminds me people are actually reading this).  I looked at my blog stats the other day and it boggled my mind to see that over a hundred visitors have been here in the last week.  Yikes!

For a long time, I kept saying I wasn't ready to blog.  That's partly because I know that I'm not willing to be as transparent as some of my blogging heroes are.  But I suppose we all just need to find our own level of comfort when it comes to transparency.  

Oh, I am thinking of switching my blog to blogspot.com.  In fact, I am working on a page right now (alert the media).