I've Always Wanted to be a Blogger - Not!!

My first post. Whoop dee freaking do! The question racing around in my head as I start my first blog post is, "Does anyone really care what I think?" Probably not, but you never know. I've always been the kind of guy who doesn't always share what I'm thinking. The reason being, as I listen to other people talk, I often say to myself, "My goodness, won't this person ever stop talking? Is this what I sound like when I'm talking?" Knowing it's possible that others might feel exactly the same, I tend to hold my opinions in reserve more often than not.

But there's this double-edged sword, unfortunately. You see, I'm in the media world...and being in the media, holding one's opinion to oneself isn't exactly a formula for success. So here I go on my first blog post to answer the $64 million question--"Does anyone really want to hear what I have to say?" One can always hope.

So what do I want to share with the world in this first of hopefully many blog posts? Well, in the simplest of terms I want to share the fact that I very much consider myself a "normal" person. I think normal things, I do normal things, and I respond to people in normal ways. And why would anyone care to read what a normal person has to say? Because normal is getting lost in today's world. I become more astounded every day with how little normalcy is left in the world today.

The media in general is no longer normal. They don't report in a normal fashion. They don't cover normal things. Everything is sensationalized and branded or stamped left, right, far left or far right. So many people I meet anymore are not normal. The world searches to be entertained by things that are not normal. And as a result I just feel like being normal is getting lost.

So that's what my blog is going to be all about. Being normal. I'm going to address issues in a normal fashion and try and express the normal point of view, often with wonder at how that particular issue may have arisen when normal thinking might dictate otherwise.

I do have a wide variety of interests so you'll see me posting about business, politics, the media, sports, hospitality, religion and many other topics. I hope you find my "normal" take on things interesting.