I think I'm Going To Blog (Whatever that is!!!)

So here goes nothing, my first blog...
What to blog about?   I wanted to be a writer, didn't everyone at some point?  I envisioned living in a cramp apartment, smoking and starving and creating great prose on a typewriter.  But that didn't happen, not even close.  Oh, I wrote.  I wrote a lot.  I wrote letters and Christmas cards and journal entries.  I wrote emails and facebook posts and to do lists.  But I didn't write great prose that would stand the test of time, move someone to laughter or to tears.  I didn't make my high school English teacher proud.  I didn't have book signings or guest appearances on talk shows. 
In fact, I almost pressed the 'backspace' button on this whole thing, but...
I got things to say, ideas to share, opinions to express!
And I have decided the best place to write is here on a computer that freezes up once a night, in my husband's office without the cigarettes.  And I definately am not starving.  (That is the subject of tomorrow's blog!)  And my high school English teacher did describe one of my story's as "Hemingwayesque" (yes that is the word I am using!).  And my nine months of Ashlyn Alerts did move people.  And my grandma did save all my letters.  So I suppose that what I have written in the past has had some impact on others.  Not the whole world, just my world!
My blog is Kind of Like Writing!