Does this Blog Need a Focus?
I wonder sometimes if I should focus this blog on something specific. Keeping an open-ended blog (about "whatever I happened to care about at a given point in time") certainly makes it harder to invite readers, and in many ways it makes it harder to write. But whenever I think about focusing attention to one topic, I struggle to let go of all of the other topics that don't fit. I suppose this makes my blog more like a diary. Life is complex and varied, and so are human thoughts. Sitting down to write today, I thought about how grateful I am to be living my life. I thought of how much I love my wife and kids and my job and extended family. But just before I began to write, I thought about the upcoming Presidential elections and the angst I've felt recently for our country. I'm quite concerned about the path the USA is headed down as it becomes more and more likely that we will be faced with a choice of two terrible candidates. On the other hand, I also fi