WHY I BLOG
One evening several years ago, with no forethought that I recall, I sat down and determined to start a blog. Some friends were already blogging and I loved reading their posts. But although I had always enjoyed writing and had taken some writing workshops over the years (and even had a stack of unpublished letters-to-the-editor in my desk), I never had the ambition or the sitzfleisch to pursue a writing life.
Yet that evening the blog title World Thru Brown Eyes came to me in a flash and I resolved to start blogging about things that moved me – childhood memories, family and friends, pleasures and displeasures, favorite books and places, beloved pets, gratifications and regrets – and to write it all with a touch of humor or pathos.
My sister Laurie was in health crisis at the time and I think writing about her then was cathartic in helping me deal with her devastating illness. In fact once I started blogging, the floodgates opened and memories and ideas came pouring out.
So maybe you should try it too and tell us how the world looks through your eyes!
– Dana Susan Lehrman
