This blog started on December 11, 2016. Since then I’ve written 7 posts. Two I’ve started and will be coming out shortly. If you include this post, that will be 8 posts finished and 2 started in about 22 days. Not bad.

I started this blog because I have an urge to write. Writing is something that I have always enjoyed doing, but never really thought I was good at. I’m a firm believer in practice. The only way to get really good at something is to do it a lot. This blog is my practice.

There are also so many ideas in my head. I tend to think I think a little differently then some and I’d like to get my ideas out of my head and onto paper (or screen).

To make this site better, I thought that it would be good to make some concrete goals for the year. These goals will be a mix of personal goals and goals for the site. You can’t have one without the other in my opinion.

Publish 39 Posts

39??? Where did you get 39? At first I wanted to publish 52 posts, one post for every week of the year. I decided this would be a little too ambitious for my first year and I want to focus on quality, not quantity. So I reduced that number by a quarter 52 * .75 = 39.

Read 12 Books

I had the same goal last year and only made it to 7. This year I want to try again. Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild is first up, followed by:

That should get me through Mayish. After that I’d like to read some fiction. Any suggestions?

Publish an Online Magazine.

This is a little out there and the details are just starting to form. There really is no draw back to trying though. I might write a bit about it here.

Get Outside….and Watch less TV!

I spend incrementally more time in front of a computer these days. I like the idea that at least one to two days of every week is spent completely outside with no digital stimulus (no headphones nothing).

That sounds like enough. I don’t want to get too excited and make goals I can’t finish. Happy New Year. Here’s to 2017.