There’s a time and a place for non-PCness and, so far as I’m concerned anyway, a personal blog is the place to do it. What other place on the Net are you going to call your own? 🙂

On here, I primarily write for me as an outlet, a means of free expression, mental blotting paper, whatever you want to call it. The fact that other people on occasion read and enjoy it is a happy bonus! I like to think that my posts put across “who I am” a lot better than, say, the writing I do for my day job. There, I’m writing to a word limit and a style guide and then being edited; here, I’m unedited, unfiltered, uncut and unfettered. While on occasion that may lead to rambling nonsense, it also lets me be “myself” at times when there might not be someone on hand to talk to — or when I don’t want to say things out loud to someone.

Interesting aside: when I was living back at home with my parents after my marriage broke down, I found it quite difficult to write quite so “honestly” as they read everything and, when I was there, tended to talk to me about it. I didn’t always like that — sometimes I wrote things simply to get them out of my head and away, and talking about them brought them back in an often unwelcome fashion. Now I’m in my own place with my girlfriend, I’m finding it easier once again to just, you know… write.

Cheers as always for the kind comments. 🙂