My First Blog Post

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

— Nora Ephron

So here I am. Writing a blog. Even the word still makes me giggle a little bit… blog. It rolls off the tongue like it should be a sound rather than a word.

But I love that it exists, regardless of how funny a word it may be. I hope to use this space and the time I spend filling it for primarily selfish purposes in a sort of release of my deep, dark (and light) thoughts. I also hope that this may somehow reveal others who are just crazy enough to think like me, and we may therefore find a sort of virtual camaraderie.

I’ve started this page with a quote that is resonating strongly with me today, and has been for recent weeks… choosing whether you’d like to be a heroine or a victim sounds like a no-brainer, right? I mean, who WANTS to be a victim? Well, apparently many many people want to. And this is news to me! I’m baffled by the concept that someone could live so willingly within the confines of their own self-imposed misery, but so many do! I’m not so concerned with the trappings of the many victims, but I am concerned with one: my mother.

And I’m actually going to leave it at that for now, because as any reader of this blog will eventually learn, she is a big topic for me. She has, in fact, been the catalyst for the very existence of this blog! The reason I need an outlet other than biweekly therapy sessions.

But she is only one topic that will be found here in these “pages”. There will be many others. Some will be rhetorical; some will be funny; some will be shocking; some will be totally predictable; some will be serious; some will be saddening; and some will be maddening. But they’re all gonna be here, once I get the hang of this. Out there, as part of the universe, hopefully aiding me in letting some of them go.

Thanks for reading my story… spoiler alert: I’ll be the heroine.