Joining the 21st Century

Well, I've gone and done it. And now there's no going back.

Not only have I taken control of my own website, I have embraced Facebook with enthusiasm; I can Blackberry with the best of them; and now this, the unthinkable - my own blog. This from the person who mourned the death of her Star Tac cell phone, rolled her eyes at texting and wondered how grown adults could possibly find the time for My Space.

Facebook is what really opened the door to my demise; the deconstruction of the Luddite. I signed up one day last month on a lark, to see what it was. The instantaneous flood of friend requests was overwhelming. Like an addict jonesing for the next fix, or a kid at Christmas sliding one finger gently under the Scotch tape holding closed the carefully-folded paper, I could not keep myself from obsessively checking my e-mail inbox for word of new Facebook activity.

The realization that people might actually want to hear from me was intoxicating. The responses to my status updates were enough to send my heart soaring. In a matter of days - and all online - I buried the hatchet with my high school best frienemy, exchanged pleasantries with three old ex-beaus and caught up with a couple of college classmates I'd been wondering about for 10 years.

What was going on with me? Who had I become? How far I had fallen from my lofty pillars high above the fray of meaningless, consumeristic, mindless technological drivel!

I fell hard and fast and, in doing so, realized that I have something to say. And other people do to. And though it's far from my roots in good-old-fashioned print, a lot of what's out there in Internet-land is really worthwhile. And while it's far from face-to-face, this stuff out there -here - has the power to inform, enlighten and brighten our lives.

What I want to share here is my thoughts on the work I do, and all the lovely - and sometimes wacky - people I meet in doing it. For most of my life I took it for granted, but now realize I am truly blessed to have a passion for something and make a living doing it. In this log, I'll share my thoughts on the biz, tidbits from the work I do and introduce you to some of the characters I meet along the way. Thanks for giving me a forum. Now, where's my Blackberry and Bluetooth device?

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