Why, Hello!

I am selling out, giving in. Trying to be hip: I'm 'blogging' on Blogger. sheesh.

I have been thinking about the art of blogging recently, admittedly due to my recent viewing of the movie Julie & Julia, based off of Julie's Book, based off of Julie's Blog.  I have often wondered how blogs have turned into this thing. I hear about Bloggers, at times, espescially when celebrity or fashion bloggers, or political commentators are referenced or consulted by other medias. After watching a rerun of Sex and the City one evening many months ago, I thought about the funny role of a columnist, writing about their daily lives and opinions, and came to the realization that these columns are like published blogs! I wonder if the prominence of blogging has had any diminishing effect on the columnists? Probably not too much. In parallel, I have also been enjoying several memoirs this summer, which also remind me of blogs, or blogs of memoirs. Marley and Me began as a column, published as a memoir. Julie and Julia, blog turned memoir, which I have not read, but comes highly recommended. I do not tend to read blogs other than those of people I actually know, though I have followed a few links suggested by friends and bookmarked them under my 'Blogs' bookmark folder. There is also a difference in the journal sort of blogs and the professional sort of blogs. My friend Grace, if I may be so informal with my mom-aged acquaintance, is an excellent blogger. Profesh, in my opinion. 

So, I have decided to keep a blog here, a little more thoughtful, I hope, and a little less vent-y and whiny than might be found elsewhere. Not that I would ever write anything like that, eh?

This age we live in is just different, interesting, over-accessible, multi-faceted, and individualistic, as well as interconnected. 

Where does this leave me and my thoughts?