For a long time, my husband has pestered me to start a blog.  "You're a good writer, surely you have something interesting to say."  For a long time, I haven't really felt like I did have anything interesting to say.  In retrospect, that seems like a funny thing for a teacher to say; my bread and butter is having "interesting" things to say......or at least saying boring things in an interesting way!

For the first couple of years that this idea was forming, I was working on my masters degree.  Writing as a leisure activity was out of the question as I churned out a weekly research paper.  Then I finished my degree, but I still had no idea what I could share with the world.  So for another year, I wracked my brain trying to come up with something that I could write about. 

In the end, it all comes back to my job.  My parents used to tell me that you should learn something everyday.  I joke about it at work; when I learn something, I sometimes say, "well, I've learned something, can I go home now?"  I happened to be readng a book over the holiday break in which the author contended that learning is something students are supposed to do all the time, while teachers only do it some of the time.  This statement really struck me. "I try to learn something every single day!" I thought. 

So I decided that could be a place to start my blog.  As my 40th birthday approaches, surely I've learned, and continue to learn, some things that might be interesting or of value to others.  This won't be a deeply philosophical blog.  I have too much going on in my life for that.  Every day, however, things strike me as interesting or I begin to see things in new and different ways.  So that's what I will write about!