Writing ? Me? ......and my very FIRST blog post

Hi ! This is a blog post , (as if you all did not know you were reading a blog post) :) but...it is really a HUGE, BIG deal for me. Why you might ask?

Although writing has been a really big part of my life for many years, I still freeze at the thought of someone actually reading what I write. I have no idea why. I guess its sorta like "stage fright"?, except...well;  "noone can see you", but they can read your thoughts and to me that's a little more frightening.There is no particular reason that I feel this way. Oddly, I have shared some of what I have written over the years with others and it is usually well received. It's almost like I sit on my writing due to fear. Okay, not almost...I sit on it.

Blogging means I am about to share my writing, and so for me that is BIG. Whew....now that I have said all of that, I can share that I do have a body of work that I hope to someday publish. I have contributed a foreword for a book that a friend of mine wrote (which was also a big deal to me). I was once invited to do a piece in a magazine which actually became an article and I was featured in it! Most recently, an editor that I had some idea discussions with a whiiiile ago contacted me. For what ? To discuss that idea again. I think that prompted me to blog, along with one other very special person.....

 Vanessa @desumama!  I have read this wonderfully smart, loving, creative blog since its birth. I love the writing and the wonderful writer!  In a very special email, desumama once told me that she thought  I had something to say......Thank you Vanessa! You do not know how those words stayed with me....

So, here I am..ready to write and share,  and hopefully Blog to Bless 1 (or thousands) ;)

Love and Blessings to All,

Shay