Beginnings, Schmeginnings

How do you begin a blog? I finally convinced myself that blogging is a better outlet for my political rants, rather than facebook statuses (I'll miss the one-liner creative process, though). I've been terrified for a while—terrified of sounding uninformed, terrified of being self-important, terrified of using too many dashes, terrified of public bellyflopping. But I am having too good of a time (in living/in books/in reading/in growing) to leave these little pathways of mine unwritten.

So here is to the awkwardness of writing about myself, the embarrassment of retrospect, and to all the not-so-secret forts that we build and inhabit on ze internetz.