I've always wanted a blog. It seemed like a flashy and modern thing to do for a writer such as myself. I dreamed about the interesting and mind-blowing things I would post everyday. Once, I imagined that I would travel the world and write a blog about the amazing foreign places I visited. Other times, I thought about being a baker and posting pictures of all the tasty sweets I made.* But as I got older and none of these dreams came to pass (not that I strove particularly hard to achieve them), I realized that a good blog wouldn't come from me sitting here and waiting for it to hit me over the head. Yes, believe it or not, I actually had to get up and make it happen.

'It'll be hard,' the mean little voice in my head groaned. 'It'll be hard to write a good, interesting blog and keep it up, especially since nothing interesting happens to you. It'll be hard to find a nice site to post and no one will read it.' These thoughts weighed me down, but, for some reason still unknown to me, I was determined. Despite the mean voice's criticisms, something pushed me to give it a go. So, expecting the worst, I began.


Finding this clever little site really wasn't difficult. Honestly, it wasn't the staggering work load I thought it would be, because at least three good sites popped up when I Googled 'blogs'. As I stared at my screen, the palm of my hand and my forehead met**. I really should have suspected as much. Blogs are popular, so finding a good site wouldn't be too difficult.

And I found myself here without the slightest idea of what I'd post about. 'What have I done?' I asked myself, half expecting another classic facepalm and receiving a nice lecture from myself on thinking things through.
But I'm looking at some other blogs now and I'm finding something interesting. Good bloggers aren't necessarily adventurous travelers or outrageously talented artists. In fact, they're just people, writers to be specific, posting about their everyday lives. And it still makes for a good blog! I'm scratching my head as I write and hope that, even though I'm not climbing Mt. Everest or baking the world's largest football-shaped cake, I can still write a good blog.

Thank you for reading! My blog next week will hopefully be better and more entertaining than this one.
~Kaitlyn Nicole

*This particular dream was crushed rather harshly when I found out that I can't bake. Rather, I can concoct the worst tasting excuses for desserts known to man and, on one specific occasion, actually blow them up in the oven as they bake.
** Otherwise known as 'facepalming'.