So my friend Lisa is the one that told me I needed to do this (ohjudy.blogspot.com) after her husband Chris (thejollyporter.blogspot.com) started his blog. I'm one of those people who love to write, and used to write quite a bit. I majored in creative writing in college, and for about 5 years afterwards (well OK, 1 year if you count the number of years since I actually graduated.) carried around my "Writer's Notebook" in my bag in the unlikely event that inspiration were to strike. It did sometimes. About once a year, and I would write down some clever sentence that someday would be part of an even more clever novel or short story, and that would be the end of that. So I stopped carrying around that notebook about a week ago, and then Lisa suggested I start my own blog. So why not. It is my new Notebook.
So the title...Well, the aforementioned Chris and Lisa used to live in England where Chris went to graduate school and Lisa held of waves of depression brought on by incessant rain and no access to a Wendy's. Lisa during the day would take her kids to the park, where there was a river and some ducks. And for some reason one of her boys named two of the ducks Table and Singlepot. I always thought that it was the most delightful set of names, and of course, being the writer that I am, said that I should write a children's book about those ducks, which of course I never did. So the names are a little reminder that I am a lazy writer, and hopefully this blog will someday be more than this entry.
Well, I promised my wife I would be in bed by midnight. I hopefully will be back soon...
