Or at least, that is what I was asked this weekend by a friend. Why do I blog? Why do I write all of this personal stuff on the web? Let it all hang out?

Well, there are a number of reasons, really.

Mostly, since I am anonymous out here. Only three people in my "real life" know that this blog exists. And I trust the three of them to not further mention this to anyone. It creates a bit of a debacle sometimes, since occasionally there are things I want to write about that I will get called out about with said people, but in general I find this space refreshing.

I have read a number of criticisms that blogs are only self-indulgent, voyeuristic diatribes.

Well, yeah. That's the point. They're not for everybody. They come in all shapes and sizes. Mostly, it just masks a group of people that all have something in common-we just have something to say.

I don't talk about my problems. Ever, really. It has long been a criticism of friends and family that when I have a problem, I just stuff it down inside. But this is my space in the world to speak my mind. To let out my opinion. And for those of you that read it, the voyeurs into my head, well you occupy a position that I only recently gave up- a voyeur myself, into my own mind.

Read, comment, ignore...do whatever you take from this spot. That's my goal.

-H.

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