A beginning

I have long contemplated creating a blog in which I can share descriptions of my adventures with others. At last, more than a year after the idea of a blog came to me, I have begun.

As is the way of things with me, I immediately I find that I am out of ideas for what to write in this first entry. So I shall begin simply - I'll describe what led me to creating this blog.

Several years ago I discovered that I am gay. My life has been a series of adventures and discoveries ever since.

Friends and acquaintances, with whom I have shared my stories of adventure and discovery, have suggested that I write a book, publish my diary, and lecture. However none of that truly appeals to me.

I have no interest in doing all of the work that writing and publishing a book entails. Nor do I wish to speak because I my stories would change in the retelling or they would become stale.
Publishing my diary does appeal to me but publishing my diary would imply, in my mind at least, that my story ended at the point of publication; and that is not the case.

I began keeping a diary a few months before I discovered that I am gay. It was keeping that diary that led to me discovering that I am gay. In that diary I have recorded descriptions of all that has happened to me as well as my thoughts and feelings. Even today new things appear and new entries are written.

The idea of creating a blog came to me on morning while I was perusing a discarded newspaper, while I was waiting to depart the Newark (New Jersey) airport. In that newspaper I read an article about this new thing, blogging. Here was an answer to my plight. I could write a blog and people who were interested could read of my adventures and discoveries as they occurred.

A few years of thought later and I have determined to diary in this blog. In it I will record and publish my adventures, experiences, and thoughts. I shall invite my readers to ask questions and make suggestions. This blog will be a living record of my voyage of discovery in life; and people who are interested can come along: sort of ride beside me and comment upon the passing scenery and look ahead at things to come.