Getting Started

This fulfills my first resolution of 2007. I resolved to start a blog. Does this make me part of the "you" generation, honored by Time magazine as "Man of the Year"?

The second resolution I made was to do more writing and journalling. I've kept a journal in one form or another since I was sixteen. That was more than forty years ago. I'm halfway through Volume 31 of my hand-written journals. Blogging seems to be a natural next step.

Journalling has been the way I have formed, developed, refined, affirmed and sometimes changed my views and beliefs over the years. It has helped me work through crises at a cost much lower than therapy. The older I get, the more I use my diaries as a way to record and preserve contemporary history and my reactions to those events. Journals are a place to remember.

This is why I chose to call my blog "Recordor et Credo" (I Remember & Believe). It will be a compilation of one middle-aged woman's memories, experiences, and beliefs. In it, I will use "I-statements:" "I believe," "I should," "I think," etc. I am not here to impose my beliefs, ideas, etc., on others with statements like "you should" or "you must" or "you ought to." I hope those who choose to leave comments will do the same.