Anything

    Isn't this the way it always goes. All semester I have wanted to be able to just blog about anything I wanted to; however, now that I can write about anything that I want to of course I can't think of anything. After class; however, now I am full of thoughts and questions and ideas. So many that my fingers can't keep up. See I am so old that this idea of taking apart a piece of literature is foreign to me. Everything that I have read in the past 30 years has been purely for entertainment. I don't even think about taking it apart. I just want to know did I get to escape my life for a few hours and go somewhere where the worries weren't mine. If it wasn't that it was Diary of a Wimpy Kid or Disney or some other G rated reading or movie that was family appropriate. I do enjoy what I am doing now and wish that I had started so much earlier. One so I could have enjoyed it for all of this time and two so I wouldn't be so lost in class. As I sit here and listen I am amazed by the fact that Southern Writers are held in such high esteem, because in my limited experience in life southern people have been looked down on and thought of as poor, uneducated people. I do understand my experience is very limited. I also have to wonder did Eudora Welty really put that much thought into what she was writing (like the name of the main character in A Worn Path- Phoenix) or did she just sit down and write a story about something simply because she enjoyed to write. Although I do regret not starting earlier I am just glad that I did start, and if I don't do anything else with my life I hope that I can help my children find an appreciation for starting earlier and hopefully never stopping.