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The Road to Holiness has a nice reflection on why we blog, pride etc.

I wrestled with this myself. All the people who appear on Oprah and chirp about their ‘journaling’ (and is this really a legit verb anyway?) revolt me. And then when I hear about those whose journals got them into trouble, legal and otherwise - what’s my reaction? “Why did you write it down, you idiot?”

So, now I’m writing it down. It took me about a month to get up the nerve to start this. And wasn’t just techno-fear. It is narcissistic to write mainly about oneself. But several people told me I should write more. And the Tribune publishes only every third letter of mine. Also, I don’t like to write. This is forcing me to do something that some say I do fairly well but that I have always hated to do. At least I’m getting faster. My last letter that made it into the Tribune took about 2 hours and a lot of irritation. But I fear I’m developing a chattier (? is that a word?) style, that may be a bit sloppy. (So I’m self conscious. Read Karl’s excellent discussion on grammar and the decline of American education on Summa Contra Mundum.........I don’t want to resemble one of his students!)

As for pride.........I did decide to be honest. About myself. And my family. (To the extent that I won’t give them cause to strangle me in my sleep........) We are not living in Lake Woebegon - the children here are not all above average. We are not the 7th Heaven family. I wouldn’t even want to be the 7th Heaven family. (A friend of Martha’s said that our family makes her think of “7th Heaven gone terribly wrong.” I was a little hurt at first. But maybe that’s not such a bad thing. Let’s face it the Camdens are a little plastic. And their house is way too clean........And the sun is always shining)