I was born and raised in Nitro,West Virginia. I was born in Hoke’s Clinic in our small town. I was brought to be a conservative and still hold to many of those beliefs. My blog may lean that way. I was raised on a little farm. In hillbilly language the farm was up a holler about a mile from our little town. Our first home was a one room shack many would call it but to us it was home. It did have running water under the house. A few years later we moved in a very small used mobile home used as a hunting camp. Several years later my Dad got a job building a plant and made very good money and he finished our home. It was very nice for the times. I grew up in a world you could leave your doors unlocked. Crime was very low then. I realize things have changed in our society. This is my thought I think I have lived in the best of times. We had no big screen TVs. Our TVs were round and not color but black and white. Our society was not a wealthy one but a happy one. I stayed in the woods as a little boy. I did not know I was poor till someone told me. You may think that my thoughts our strange but that is fine. We had no internet or cell phones but we created things to do. I gave you a fer thoughts. See what you think. I will be writing many more posts and presenting others posts.

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You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

• Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
• Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

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• Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
• What topics do you think you’ll write about?
• Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
• If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

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