The very beginning. What a precious and powerful–though ideally fleeting!–time for a blog and its author.

The blog is live. All the behind-the-scenes decisions and indecisions have been worked through–from title to design.

So it is time to write, and, to write like people are reading it. Because they could. But no one is. I find this intensely and unexpectedly satisfying, and honestly, exciting. An actor or actress might feel this way, alone in an empty theater, weeks away from dress rehersals–this is the real deal, but also a private moment between myself and the craft. I can ease up a bit on the quest for perfection. I can experiment, play, but with that extra bit of motivation. Preparing for the time when someone will be watching.