I have been considering a blog for some time.  My initial forays into social networking sites with MySpace was, in part, to explore blogging and to push myself to write.  Much of my time has been consumed by my school and classwork to the detriment of my writing.  My hope is that this site will give me the opportunity (and the motivation) to explore and develop my writing skills. 

This blog will serve as my commonplace book, not so much a place to collect fragments I find as a place to create my own commentary on the various topics that interest me.  I hope that my readers find the space valuable to them as well, perhaps as a source or motivation for their own “commonplace book.”