Another Attempt at Writing Life

I've always tried to keep a constant diary. I remember having an official diary when I was a kid, a little book with something like "My Diary" stamped in gold on the cover. I have no idea where that might be now, so I can't say how successful I was in maintaining it. When I began studies at Mars Hill College in August 1977, I did my best journaling or diary-making. For a good long time, entries went into half-sized spiral notebooks almost daily, and ultimately a decent percentage of the years from 1977 to 1990 is recorded in them.

Sometime in the mid 1990s, my wife Leesa gave me a wonderful full-sized notebook with spiral binding at the top instead of the side and a picture of two children--a boy with a flute, a girl beside him--sitting and looking a piece of sheet music that seems almost the size of a poster in comparison to them. I wrote sporadically in this for the next ten years or so and finally filled it up a couple of years ago. Now I have an ETSU notebook. The first entry in it is dated "Friday, 5 November 2004" and the most recent "Wednesday, 10 May 2006"; counting these dates, the notebook has 29 entries. That's fairly pitiful, I think.

Maybe a blog will inspire me to be better at keeping up with things. I'll try to write about the things that make up my life--family, work, church, writing, music and travel.

So, welcome to anybody who might stumble across this. I'll be happy to hear from you if you should have any comments or questions about what I write.