Hello world!

Welcome to WordPress.com.  My old blog at Vox (see related link) had the tagline:  “How do I know what I think until I see what I say,” by Saul Bellow, which sums up for me the beauty of blogging. The habit of writing and clarifying your thoughts through writing is given shape and even some urgency when the upkeep of one’s blog is involved. It is mortifying to leave a trail of half-baked blogs in one’s wake, which makes me appreciate the ability to upload from blogger, which was my first blog (see below), from August 2005-July 2006. My next blog was at Vox, and went from November 2006-March 2007.