Why blog?

Why blog? This is an interesting question to me and for the longest time I kept thinking why are there so many people that have a blog? It sure did not seem like something that I needed or for that matter even wanted to do. But after reading a few blogs by people I considered ordinary people, I thought, I might want to blog.  One of my biggest fears was and still is that those who read my posts will think this guy is an idiot. (You may have already made that conclusion) I told myself that it was OK if a few people had those thoughts and that this blog was for me to express my ideas.  Of course I am making a big assumption that someone will read my posts, but I am hopeful someone will read them and possibly offer their thoughts for me to consider.

I will also admit when I told my wife that I was going to begin writing a blog she chuckled and I am sure she thought you have to be kidding me. I went on to ask her and my son for some ideas for a name for the blog.  I offered what I thought were some pretty good names. Much to my dismay they both said those stink, or that makes you sound like a creepy old man, which I certainly am not.  I kept thinking it can't be that hard to come up with a name, so I thought more about it and this time said here is my blog title  "Banded Tales", as you can imagine I received a similar response but I was committed to this title.  I had some good reasons for the name, which included that my posts or "tales" would all be "banded" together by my  interests, which include love of family, sports, community and Agriculture. Thus "Banded Tales" seemed quite appropriate and is here to stay.

I hope that "Banded Tales" will be of interest to you.

Until next time

Paul