I have looked at my web log quite often over the last 8 months and though about what to do with it. Since my separation from my wife I have often wanted to write and write in this blog but for obvious reasons resisted the temptation. Not because I have nothing to say but because I felt it important to be in the right frame of mind when typing it in here for all the world to see and judge. (oh the vanity)  When I started posting to it in 03 it was the Stay at Home Dad web log and the content for the most part was of a family nature, vacations, pictures of kids, etc. My motivation for publishing varied but was generally confined to several main reasons, to share my life and to save those moments that might otherwise slip through our fingers and be forgotten forever. Omitted were the dark and terrible things we all say and do from time to time. These things tend to be remembered without recording them. Matrimony itself also has a filtering effect on content. The "what will people think" factor, carefully scrutinizing every word before it's published. This idea of what others think also spills over and can make me very critical of myself and my ability to communicate my thoughts through the written word. Before I can blink I find myself not writing at all, and like any muscle that's not used on a regular basis, my pen grows fat and lazy.

I think its time I cast off these shackles that oppress my creativity and post more often, or in other words stop caring so much about what others think.