I found out today that I’ve had a wordpress site since 2006. I guess I shouldn’t say I found out; that implies I never knew. I rediscovered.

This is going to be the site I use to practice this skill I’ve developed of putting words to ideas. I’m not one of those writers whose words always spill beautifully like a perfectly coordinated slow-motion splash. Sometimes my sentences are too long. Sometimes I give up on a thought halfway through a paragraph. I get stuck sometimes wondering if I’m wasting time, pressing these words out onto the page. I care about such odd things, always have, and it seems nobody is sparked by what I write.

That’s my goal, to create a spark. And maybe that’s too lofty a goal. I know most writers seek to entertain or amuse. But I can’t rest until something I write makes opens the floodgates in someone else — because this is the writing I’ve always enjoyed the most myself.

And this is the place I’ll dedicate to creating sparks, even if I never succeed.