First Blog

This is my first blog, so be patient with me. I am sitting at the computer, trying to come up with a few pithy statements that will wow my readers. However, nothing as yet is coming to mind. I think it's because I feel pressured to write something - anything.

Why am I doing this? What will I get out of this? God-willing, I'll be able to vent when I'm mad, muse when I'm melancholy, and rejoice when I'm ecstatic. I also want to be able to provide some helpful hints to my students regarding the fabulous benefits of reading and writing just for the sheer pleasure of it.

My "son" is mewing at me; apparently, I'm not paying attention to him, and he feels slighted. To appease him, I've allowed him to lay down on my lap, which makes typing somewhat of a challenge.

I love to write, so on some days I'll write rather lengthy diatribes of what's going on in my life. On other occasions, I'll write just a note that I think is important enough for the world to view.

Before deciding to join blogger.com, I brainstormed a list of topics that I thought might make for interesting writing. I guess these are subjects that have been swimming around in my brain for the past few weeks:

Going for a doctorate in curriculum and instruction,
Scrapbooking,
Journaling,
Packrat Confessions,
Praising the virtues of pleasure reading and writing,
Views on housecleaning,
General likes and dislikes,
The art of computering

Those are just a few thoughts I have at the moment.

I suppose I could get into the heavy duty conversation topics, such as politics in the USA or religious debates, but I don't know if I want to delve too deeply into those kinds of musings. I have my opinions on those two topics, and so does everybody else, so I think I'll just stick to typical stuff (for lack of a better word).

I should explain the title of my blog spot: The Wordeling Reader. Many years ago, I had the opportunity to talk with a person who had a profound impact on my life then and now. She helped me realize how important art, reading, and writing are. I love to doodle, read, and write. Doodling is such a general term. I do not just doodle with color. I also doodle with words, so I thought of wordel. I switched the last two letters because they are the first two letters of the person who changed my life: Eldora, so doodling with words became wordeling. Since I'm also a reader, I thought that The Wordeling Reader would be an apt name for my blog spot.

Enjoy the wanderings and wonderings of my pages!