Always new beginnings...

Sure, I'm full of half-starts, fitful non-entries into many things, such as blogging. But still I have revisited this thing and think now I might be warming up to a productive approach.

Lots has happened, most significantly the birth of baby Tucker, who has proven to be just an awesome joy and all the worrisome responsibility they told me about. He has served to sort of congeal or solidify some anxieties and needs and wants. I find my self in great need of organizing my existence to, primarily, serve him as best I can and raise him up right. But to do that I need traction in areas, the classical ones including physical, spiritual, professional, relationship, household--all these sectors of development that can't be ignored to feel on-track and successful.

Most of all I want to be happy, and goddamn I usually am! Hallelujah! But I think that happiness is usually born of a well-adjusted equanimity that says "things are cool, I can sit back and let them happen." That's not a bad way of going, not a horrible outlook for getting through this life tour. But I feel mounting urges to do more, to grab more, to think and write and live and experience more, to have more direction and focus in my efforts.

Certainly, the writing can take me in a lot of those directions, but it demands application. I hereby resolve to overcome equanimity and inertia and just, confound it, try harder! At everything! Get the basement cleaned and the rain garden planted. Write an awesome mag article and query it and get it sold. Raise a wise and relaxed kid who is the confidant of his peers. Love my wife well.

In writing this I suggest that the writing of this can be a personal blog of progress, and I envision my entries being categorized, such as: physical fitness, household improvement, child development, professional progress, spiritual awakening.
We'll see how it goes. Best is that it is apparently all for me, and I know I can sit here and do it on a late night, because I have just done it.

So.

Guess I need to update...

There's a new Blogger, I think I need to transition, hope I haven't lost the connection. Testing...

This is a great picture of my hot, pregnant wife, on the beach and looking cool.

Here's a start. Our final picture from vacation on North Captiva Island, Florida. That's Andrew and James in back, who live and work at the restaurant there, then Jane, wife Susan and me, and Denny in front (left). 

Geez, and I call myself a writer...

Holy crap, this blog still exists, sitting here for me to fill with my wisdom. Having had a whole lotta stuff happen in the last year (job change, baby on way, freelance career, little brother, lots) maybe I should come back to this thing as a way to just get words on the screen every day, to organize thoughts, record successes. Just hope I can achieve some momentum. There's so much to do, how do so many people do this blogging so enthusiastically?

I declare...

Swear to God I am going to actually blog, with insightful posts and research and pictures. Been busy, but haven't we all. The hardest thing is to start. Plenty of fodder for reflection, have had travel and experiences up the YY lately. One thing I thought could be a start is to list all the things I feel I would or could like to write about. So, here goes:
Birds
Others blogs
Sports
Organizational communication
Striving for health and fitness
Marriage
Gardening
Neighborhood partying
Lame corporate practice
TV like West Wing and HBO

'n Stuff!
So, I'll come back and expand, just checking on the damn blog, making sure it's still here. Learn to produce some content and make it work as a life tool, more for me than anyone else, and as a writing exercise.

Just trying this blogging thing, experimenting... 

You can wash your cat...

See?
but how do i post a pic, am just now trying to create this"weblog."
Ok, will add later.........