Mom's advice

When I was a kid, my mom told me to never write a diary. She said once you write it down, your words stay out there FOREVER and you can't take them back.

I followed her advice for the most part. I never broke up with a boyfriend using the written word. I never wrote down my feelings and shared them with any one.

I kept journals only a couple times in my life. Once in junior high, when I was a flag girl for the community band and we went on tour. All the stupid crushes, rivalries and drama made me want to vomit when I read them years later. My mom never told me that - that my own words of triviality would make me sick with embarrassment.

So why am I blogging now??? Well, I've got a lot of interesting stories to tell. Maybe I do want my words to stay out there forever for you.