Blog Charter

I am starting this blog almost on a whim.  Actually I offered to maintain a blog for someone else and in the course of setting up a test site I thought perhaps I would jump in myself.

But what for?

I like to spend time doing nothing, accomplishing nothing specific (more on that later), as much as most people.  However, if I'm going to put effort into this I'd like to think I might accomplish something by that effort.

Ideas:

- Provide expertise: I'm only qualified to do this in the field of Information Security and some other areas related to Information Technology.  I don't think I want to do that at home too.  I could provide expertise, or rather related experience, in hiking, backcountry camping.

- Share experiences: Who the heck cares?  I'm a father, I work full time, I hike, I watch movies, read books, practice zen, been married, been in the Air Force, traveled a bit.  I might have some good stories to tell and my experiences and reflections are no less valuable than anyone else and no more.

- Haiku and other poems: I would like to share some.  I might even include short stories in that list.  It would perhaps help keep me more disciplined about producing work.

- Reviews: Should it be books, movies, TV...I'm no expert on any of these.  And yet I've done this on my Facebook page for a while, not for several months though, and I enjoyed doing that and got some good feedback.  I can't provide anything more than so many others, more qualified and more learned in the history of film, literature, TV etc already provide out there but I do think I could offer something.  And I think a review is a good writing practice.

I think I'm on to something.

And oh yes, I know the Greek word I used for the title of this blog "Proseisphora:  an addition to a story" is meant to refer to a structure like an attic or other structural extension to a building.  I just like to play with words like that.