The Beginning

My first entry into the world of blogging, what do I say?  It is a question I have pondered for at a week or two, when I struggled to determine what I could possibly say that would be worthy of being posted on the internet for all to see. I imagine it is similar to a first date; anxiously striving to be as impressive as possible so as not to loose the man, or, in this case, the casual reader.

I am afraid I never really decided what should be in my first blog post.  I could tell you all about myself, but why give everything away at once?  It seems more interesting to explain things as life deems them necessary, as opposed to spouting random, currently irrelevant, and potentially uninteresting facts.  What then, should this post be about?

The question brings to mind a song from the Sound of Music.  Where the main character (who's name I have forgotten as I have only seen the movie once) sings: "Start at the very beginning/A very good place to start..."  And while the advice is simple enough when learning how to sing, I feel as though I am at the beginning, writing my first post.  As a matter of fact, I am three paragraphs into it and still feel a lack of direction.  That piece of advice does not seem to apply!

Nevertheless, I have begun.  After all, I can hum and ha and ponder and consider many different things about how to write a blog, what to say in a blog and the like, but I have decided to leap off the cliff, take the plunge, and see where I am when I resurface.  I my only hope going into this is that you, my dearest reader, will be inspired in some way.  To laugh, to cry, to give advice, to smile, to ponder some deep thought...any of the above (and countless others) would be utterly satisfying to me.

Oh, by the way, my name is Rachel, and this is the beginning.