I Plan to Wallow in the Stuff

Why I Hang on to Blogging, Part I
by Pat Darnell

I would like to share with you why I hold on for the sake of MooPig Wisdom, my evolutionary advance in self-publishing public journalism. To be published is a dodgy thing. To be self-published is a sure thing.

"You see, Timmy, if you don't speak up, then you have to write up." If you don't have the gift of gab, then you have to have a gift of Pen... no?

I had difficulty raising my hand to speak in classrooms. After being called on, it seems everything I wanted to say would not get past my Adam's apple. So I developed my writing at early age. Using pen and paper I took long hand notes, shortened those notes to phrases, then started just plain new-fashioned free verse. I found combinations of language that no one else had found.

One semester, after the moon walk, in my first High School computer science class, I had a chance to see the future. I and about ten others took the course because we felt the computer age was upon us. I like all others dreamed of the internet back in 1970. Thirty-eight years later, it has just now reached the level of "usefullness" it should have thirty-four years before... no?

So, like a child seeing snow the first time, or a bird-dog seeing a pond full of ducks, I plan to wallow in the stuff until I either get frost bit, or drown.
pd