Welcome to all the Life and Stuff readers! I'm glad you stopped by. Please let me know what you think! I'll have a new column posted on Monday, come see me then.

Okay, so now comes the introductions. I have decided to begin this weblog of my life so that I may have a creative outlet for expression. I decided to do this for several reasons. The first reason is that (if I do say so myself) I'm a pretty good writer. I am able to communicate and express myself pretty well. I have a learning disability that makes physically writing by longhand a horrible, almost literally painful, experience. I think that one of the reasons this was so painful to me is because as a child, I was a voracious reader, and I KNEW that I had these words in my head that could express myself, but I couldn't do it. Thank goodness, I learned to type (and type well) during middle school sometime. It is a skill that I value very much, for it gives me voice on paper. The next reason that I wanted to do this is because I DO have things to express, and no outlet for it. It is kind of an exercise to force myself to do it. I want to be consistent, so hopefully I can keep it up. My goal is to post at least three times a week. That seems realistic for now. That said, I reserve the right to change this at any time. The third reason is that I have, for the last four months or so, been reading an essay a day by Kim Holzer. I have been watching her write and thinking not only "hey, I can do that", but also "hey, I WANT to do that!" Thanks, Kim for the email exchanges, and also for letting me be a guest columnist on your site. It really was a huge honor to me. I hope that my site is as fulfilling to me as yours has been. Next column, I'll write a bit more about what sorts of things we will discuss in this, as well as some of my future plans for this. A hint: I'm going to register my own domain!