I am now a blogger!

For better or for worse, I have now thrown my 2 cents into the tray. From some of the blogs I've browsed lately, some are declaring the end to be near for blogging as whole. This doesn't surprise me. Seems I'm always (or at least regularly) getting in on the tail end of trends. Cell phones, Internet savvy, the housing market......For crying out loud, I'm the last of the baby boomers.

Why start a blog anyway? Why now? And what for? First and foremost, I just hope to have some fun with it. Maybe meet some new friends. Expand my horizons. Blow off some steam about things. Comment on what's happening in and around the world. Because it's Wednesday. Whatever.

I'm really hoping that maybe some of the things I find important and worth talking about will be of some interest to others as well. Especially men of a certain age like myself. Whatever race, color, or creed we may be, seems that men in general have been marginalized and even demonized in our society these days. Some may argue that's true and for good reason. I of course, will argue for our significance and continued relevance. More on this later. I think I have some hate mail coming in already.

Anyway, let the blogging begin. Now I just have to figure out how all this works. I think maybe I'll ask my teenagers for help.