I am really not sure about this whole blogging idea.  For a person like myself, who finds it difficult to refrain from inappropriate comments  even in polite company, the idea of writing something in the privacy of my home and then posting it for all the world to see sounds like a recipe for disaster.  The potential to get fired, lose friends and embarass family members is all too real.

But maybe the danger is part of its allure, the reason why virtually everyone seems to be doing it.  So much of life is edited by  others.  Your children's teachers, your work colleagues, your mother-in-law, everyone seems to have suggestions about what you should be doing and thinking.  But on your blog, secured by your secret password (so secret in fact that sometimes you yourself honestly can't even remember it), you are free to think and say anything.  Press the post button and let the chips fall where they may.