Hello, it’s me.

Okay, I’ll admit it: I’m pretty damn intimidated about writing the first post on this blog. And I’m amused, in a wry kind of way, to discover that. After all, if you take a quick look at the “About” page — go ahead, I’ll still be here when you get back — my whole point in creating this blog is to track my progress in becoming a better, bolder, braver version of myself and share it with other people who want to do the same thing. So how silly do I feel that I’m letting something like a little empty text box freak me out?

Admitting it is the first step, I guess. And putting my fingers on the keyboard and typing is the second. So.

I plan to spend a lot of time writing here about what I find challenging, intimidating, anxiety-producing, or just plain hard to get around to doing. With apologies to Eleanor Roosevelt, I don’t really believe I’m going to be doing something that scares me every day. Even if I define “scary” very loosely indeed, I’d run out of things to do in a hurry. So I’ll probably end up addressing the same topics many times over the next year, from lots of different angles. I’ll talk about what I’m doing, but I’ll also talk about why I found it scary in the first place, how I felt when I did it, and what I learned as a result. Some days, I’ll post instead about things I think are inspiring, entertaining, thought-provoking, useful, or otherwise good for wing-strengthening. Some days I’ll probably talk about photography or cats. And some days, when my biggest fear is that anyone who’s reading must think I’m the most pretentious prat on earth, I’ll try to come up with something dorky and fun.

I’m running as fast as I can toward the edge of that cliff. 1 – 2 – 3 … jump!

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