Dave’s Midlife Blog

Having podcasted (The Word Nerds) since March ‘05, it’s probably time that I started blogging. My 16-year-old daughter’s been doing it for about three years (not knowing it was called blogging).

The moment anything like this is started is just a snapshot moment, a place to put your boat in the river of time. I’m home from teaching school today for the second day in a row. The mid-Atlantic region got a little ice storm yesterday, so school was cancelled. And since I don’t teach in the same district my daughter attends, she’s at school and I’m at home.

We are sometimes guided by strange provocations. Having gotten bored with the handful of podcast-related podcasts to which I’m subscribed, I decided this week to explore. So I subscribed to Dan Klass’s Bitterest Pill. The first couple of episodes of his show that I heard featured The Butties, a great Beatles cover band that has released a wonderful CD of Christmas tunes done in the style of the Fab Four.

Wanting to buy the CD, I went to Dan’s blog; wanting to post a comment, I clicked the comment link and discovered that I had to set up an account. And since “setting up an account” means setting up a blog on Blogger, here I am.

And happy about it, too, I must say! I will eventually get the hang of this blogging thing, but for now I just note that I’ve started my Midlife Blog a little past the mid-point of my life, at age 52-and-a-sixth (well, as of next Thursday).

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