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On blogging versus essaying

September 15, 2007

It has come to my attention that blogging is not my strong suit.  I rarely feel the urge to comment on daily events.  There are others who do that far better and far more frequently than I could ever hope to have the attention span for.  So what have I been doing here?  I realize that I have just been approaching this blog in the same way that I approach the writing of essays, and in effect, I have just been writing short essays.  Whenever my thoughts about something reach a kind of climax, I need to write them down in order to understand them, and hopefully to learn something new about them.  I don’t think I shall change that though, since it seems to be the form of writing I am better at or at least most comfortable with.  There’s enough cat stories on the web to go around already, right?  (I’m not promising I at some point will not share a story about my cats).