Happy New Year!

Blogs are hard to maintain at times. There are so many other things needing attention that blogging takes a back seat. But as I skim over my past blogs I am reminded of some remarkable, or at least mildly amusing points of 2009. Before blogs, we had diaries. These, too, were a little challenging to keep up. Not only was I constantly hiding it in different places around my room, I sometimes couldn't find the key, and though I meant to record every meaningful experience, it tended to be weeks or months between entries. Even when I read them now, the entries don't seem that easy to follow. Why did I say that? Who was that? You get the idea. But for all the difficulty in keeping a blog or diary, it really is a valuable piece of history. I might not have remembered the Jupiter dimestore I haunted on my bike the summer I was ten, and I might not have remembered that at one moment I thought about that new box of crayons smell. So I encourage all to keep those diaries or maintain those blogs, because as messy as it is sometimes, it is our own personal history, and will only increase in value as the years go by!