Starting a new blog is like making a statement - "I am going to do things differently", or "I am looking for a new angle to life" or something like that. I don't yet know what this new venture is going to do - whether it will be nothing more than an online diary type rant, whether it will be a deep spiritual/intellectual voyage of discovery, or whether it will be a sort of personal Readers' Digest. Probably it will be a bit of each.
I am at the point where I am balancing a family, a job, an elderly parent, and the beginnings of creaking joints and greying hair and all the other things that remind you that middle age is not for ever. However, I also have the satisfaction of living at a time where the insecurities of youth are past. I know I will never be a Nobel prizewinner, and that's OK. It's great to have finding someone to marry, kids through school, substantial loans and the upward career path behind us, and the temporary contentment of a life that has had its significant ups and downs, but we have pulled through. It is also nice to have a job which, though extremely demanding at times, is a useful one, and one which uses the abilities and education I have been given. All in all, I am just ordinary. And that's just fine.
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