Coffee Break?

This week's challenge is, basically, to describe my blog...what it is, why it is.  I DO love blogging and for me, anyway, the reason why I blog isn't important.  Or is it?  Yes, of course it is!  But only to me, I guess...it's a personal thing.  I'm not selling anything...at least nothing specific or in particular, yet.  That might come when and if I ever publish one of my books...(or write others!).  You'll find a few ads on the pages which are there because...why not.  Have I earned anything from them...nope.  Do I care?  Not particularly.

To be very honest my blog is self-serving.  Since I was old enough to read and write my bliss has been reading, my passion writing.  "Composition"...as it was called when I was a kid...was my favourite English subject although English, in general, was "it" for me.  I gave myself "composition" homework around the age of six or seven...writing stories, entertaining (or boring...lol)  my parents and sister with them when completed.  My favourite gifts...Christmas, birthday, anytime...were always books to read and notebooks with freshly sharpened, new pencils (then pens) to write in.  I did get other gifts but my solace, my friends, my comforts were the characters about whom I'd read or those of whom I'd write.  I participated in essay contests during my schooling with great relish.  In all of my life that has never changed.  Oddly enough, I never did keep a diary...I had been given diaries but they just ended up in a drawer...empty as the day they were bought.  But as I grew older the stash of notebooks grew and grew..the one difference being fiction no longer appeals to me and hasn't for decades.  Look in any cupboard, box, room...there will be several beat up looking notebooks filled with words, ideas, thoughts, opinions.  Writing, for me, is more cathartic than anything else I can think of...my joys, perplexities, grief expressed and assuaged just by sitting at my desk, pen in hand and a pure fresh page upon which to lay it all down.  Until the internet and the advent of blogging, once I had a computer I'd write to my word processor, save each piece and sometimes print it off...so now I have notebooks, reams of dusty, curled edged paper filling spaces where really there are none left.  Goes without saying I HAVE been told I'm opinionated...probably true but isn't everyone?  We all have opinions on what we hear, read, see.  Friends, KW...oh, they have them but tell me "choose your battles", move on, let it go.  Naaah!  No fun there!

And then came Blogs.  This one isn't actually "maat45"...that's my nom-de-plume if you like and how I signed up but the blog is Coffee Break?  I guess if I spent my days in an office it would have been "Water Cooler" for this..I hope, I think, is what you will generally find here...small talk, humour (I hope!), pets, society, opinions, discussion points, meanderings...whatever butterflies through the grey matter on any given day.  It's a place that's mine...where I can come write whatever is on my mind...pertinent to others or not, I write it.  I can save it, reread it, store it without paper dust being created or gathering on the floor of a closet.  I can...and enjoy...willingly sharing these pieces with anyone who wants to stop by to say "Hi".  They can like it or not, comment as they wish, disagree/agree with an opinion...I love it all and appreciate their visits but especially am interested in how and what others think, feel, believe.  Maybe, in part, it's a preparation of leaving something of myself behind, to say "Yes...I was here and this is something of who I am, who I was."  Perhaps one day my nephew will read it...or his children...and get to know who I am, what I was about.  Now, is that important?  Not at all...not to another soul but somehow it is to me.  If I ever figure out why, guaranteed there will be a blog about it!       

I have to admit I'm more than amazed at the pages read, the number of visitors this blog has had.  In the grand scheme of blogging neither may be more than a drop in the bucket but the fact that anyone has found it, read it...wow!  So...this is a welcoming spot.  Pull up a chair to the desk, I'll pour you a cup of cyber java and chat...tell me a story.   I promise you...I will always be very happy to see you.

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