To my four faithful readers

In light of the following facts:

• I love blogging, because I get to write about whatever I feel like on any particular day, and one to two pages single-spaced is just about the span of my attention;
• I may be a new writer, but I am an expert avoider, and the blog is the perfect avoidance alternative to writing for publication;
• As useful as my practice writing blog is in providing practice writing, it is not quite as useful as actually writing the articles I wish to get published;
• I have four weeks during which my older boys are at their father's house before my summer is toast; and
• I would very much like to move my career forward;

it is clear that I must, in fact, put myself on a regime. Let us say posting twice a week, exactly. I'm aiming for Wednesday and Friday, but that may evolve.

All those semi-colons, colons, and stray commas just sent me to the basement to fetch a copy of Strunk & White, as well as The Little, Brown Handbook. I'll take them to my bedside table, but that is no guarantee that I'll read them.