To blog or not to blog... will anyone read it? Might the wrong people read it? Will this forum be my downfall in my 2030 bid for a Senate seat? (I knew I shouldn't have published that I'm a 36- year-old woman with a crush on Kieran Culkin.)

I fancy myself articulate and could have been a proficient writer had I ever applied myself. (I smack of Lady Catherine de Bourgh in Pride and Prejudice!) Maybe now I might apply myself? Growing up, my diaries had two or three sanitized entries and were then abandoned. I can write a mean letter of complaint or letter to the editor.

If nothing else, this will relieve some of my favorite writers of my lengthy comments on their blogs. They don't know me, but I presume to enter their limerick contests and share my children’s triumphs and tribs with them anyway. You can also be privy to my beefs with belligerent gas station attendants and smarmy shop girls.

Please excuse my obsession with Jane Austen—there will be too much of that. (A fitting segue to my 1st link http://pemberley.com.) My life as a liberal in a Southern-fried American town may be some fodder as well.

Then there are movies...have you seen Kieran Culken in Igby Goes Down?