Exordium, Or, The Birth of a Blog – Part II

Starting a blog for the first time can be a vacillating person’s nightmare, there are so many decisions to make. What should your logon and password be? What to name the blog? What should your screen name be? What clever description can I come up with to describe my blog? And I hadn’t even gotten to all the decisions under the Settings menu.

But the decision that took the longest, probably months, was what to name my blog, and I found that I was not alone in my quest. Surely, naming children is easier? Your blog represents, no, IS you. The title reveals true identity even if people hide their real names. I have a page of potential blog titles that I rejected (too childish, too weird, too common, too pretentious). Once I decided to use “The Blue Notebook,” I searched Blogger and was tremendously disappointed to find two other blogs bearing the same name. I felt like a whiny child whose cookie gets taken away.

After moping about for a few days and returning to my Search For the Perfect Blog Title, I thought, I LIKE “The Blue Notebook,” and who cares if some odd teenaged boy uses it? Blue is my favorite color, and by golly that’s the title I’m going to use.

So welcome to my blog, but don’t expect too many posts just yet. That would require making more decisions, and for now, I’m tapped out.