Billy the Martian

What’s my motive for writing a blog? Well, all my friends are doing it,
for starters. (Examples: Dave, for
one, and Steph and Tim, for another.)

Also, I’ve always been a heavy reader. I think that lurking inside each
bookworm is a little voice that says either “I could do this!” or “I wish I could do this!” My wife often tells people that I want to be a writer, and I
usually step in and say that I actually just want a writer’s working situation.

I hated writing classes in school, but I think that was largely because I
never wanted to write about the things that I was assigned. Later on
in life, though, my wife got me to write one of those Christmas form-letters.
I had fun with it, since humor was the main goal, and enough people told
me that they liked it that I realized that I could write to please an
audience, if only in a limited fashion.

Plus, there’s lots of cool blogging software out there!

So, here I am!