I have been accused of thinking too much and being a bit of a dreamer.  Guilty as charged.  I consider neither attribute to be particularly detrimental.  The problems of the day must be solved with action, sure, but only after some careful thought has been given to the matters at hand.  Good thinking is a process, a deliberate act that requires practice.  Granted, some thought comes in a flash of insight occasionally, or in an otherwise entirely unexpected manner, but to take a problem, evaluate it, analyze it, and generate potential solutions actually requires effort.  When I was in grade school, my teachers would talk to my parents and tell them that I had a tendency to daydream.  This observation was usually surrounded by phrases such as, "he can DO the work" or "he just needs to apply himself."  The message that dreaming is an inherently bad thing, reserved only for the REM sleep stage, got through...and was ignored.  Where would we be without dreams?  Dreams contain the seed of hope.  There is nothing impossible for one who dreams.  We would not have any modern conveniences - cell phones, computers, modern medicine, Disney World - without the dreamers who conceived of these notions and failed to accept "no" as an answer.  Hence, if I am to be accused of being a thinking dreamer, then I gladly accept my fate.

Writing is therapeutic for me.  Staying awake at night, staring at the dark walls while ideas race through my brain and being frustrated that I can't give a voice to my thoughts is not an uncommon event.  Whether I nudge my spouse and tell her about what's on my mind, or I call a friend to do the same, tends to be a little upsetting when the conversation takes place after midnight.  Thus, I took to writing down my ideas, thoughts, stories, etc.  My notebooks and legal pads tend towards the ADD end of the spectrum, as I can flit from one idea and mood to another quite quickly, much as Elizabeth Taylor did with her husbands.  I know that I had at least three legal pads going at one point, all with different topics in various developmental stages.  The thing is, writing is a way for me to develop an idea or simply to let it go so that I can finally go to sleep.  It's a way for me to rage against the challenges of the day, or life in general.  Writing allows me to express my hope for the future and to find a way to make tomorrow better than today.  Sometimes, I just have the compulsion to write and there's no way to circumvent that impulse.                                                                                                                                  

I have no idea where this blog will go.  I don't know what I will write, or when I will write it, for that matter.  I don't even know that I have anything to say to anyone that might be relevant or of interest.  I will write as the inspiration comes.  It may be part journal, part novel, part autobiography, part commentary.  Who knows?  The muses all had a specific purpose, though generally speaking, they served either the comic or the dramatic side of life.  My particular muse is ADD, and I have no clue where she will take me.  I hope that you - whoever you are - will enjoy reading this blog as much as I will enjoy writing it.  I once told a woman whom I intended to marry that I didn't care so much where we went, as long as we went together.  Adventures rarely STAY adventures when they are a solo effort.  With that in mind, please don't hesitate to provide feedback as you see fit and join me as I move forward.  Thanks for reading this much!