Why?

Why do we blog? To fill a void? To make friends? To make money? Because we like (the sound of) our own voices?

I have two blogs. I have one for my fam­ily and friends. I have another, until now unnamed, for the gen­eral pub­lic. I write the first (though I haven’t much lately) to stay in touch with my fam­ily, and my friends. So the kids will have some­thing to look back on when they are older. A public/private diary aimed at them, as it were.

I write the other, the one that is becom­ing this blog, for me. Why? Because I want to be famous. Yeah, that’s right. Not Har­ri­son Ford famous, or (god For­bid) Paris Hilton famous. No, but I do want some of the peo­ple to rec­og­nize my name some of the time. I think that’d be cool. Espe­cially if it’s because I write well, or I take good pic­tures, or I make pretty things.

If I make friends, money, or fill some kind of void along the way, all the better.

And let me just point out, that I hate read­ing any­thing I have writ­ten, because I’m a per­pet­ual reviser at heart. So no, I don’t like my own voice (and wow do I hate what I sound like when recorded!).