The words you're reading at this moment are words I never expected to be creating.
That's because I never expected to have a blog. I never much saw the point, and a lot of the ones I've seen left me wondering why THOSE folks felt compelled to start one. I've even been encouraged a time or two to have a blog, but never really had the urge.
Still, though, I unquestionably can do 2 things- talk and type, and it seems that anytime I'm doing either I can just go on and on. So, in that sense, this is a natural environment for me.
So, here we go.
There isn't much point in getting very autobiographical right now, because plenty of that will no doubt come out as I go along here. I WILL just briefly say that I'm a "transplanted" Southerner, born and raised in East Tennessee, who moved to Illinois in 2002. When I was younger, I was a professional musician, then decided to get a "real job" and went into law enforcement for a good number of years. I then went into healthcare, which allowed me to meet my wife and, ultimately, to make that move to the Land of Lincoln. Along the way, I've also done a bewildering number of other jobs. The upside to all that is that now I can talk to just about anybody about just about anything.
And like I said, talking is something I have a gift for. It might help a little if you try to imagine all this in a Southern accent- if you can do that, you'll pretty much have the picture of anything I might put on here.
I'll even let you in on a little secret. I'm going to cheat on this a little to get started. One of those multiple jobs I spoke about earlier was a side job writing a little column for a quarterly supplement to the Champaign News-Gazette. It was mostly a little humor column, and I'm going to use a few of those to help me get off the ground on this.
We'll see how it goes. I hope you like it. If you do, tell your friends. If you don't, remember that "Silence is golden".
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