"Sometimes it's sweet, and Sometimes it's sour."

I've been debating starting a new blog since my old one lost its funding back in August, but I was pretty self-conscious about it and unsure about how much I really had to say and how much time I had to say it. I don't want to steal Ellen's blog insecurity bit, though, so this is me moving on.

You're probably all wondering what in the world "life is like a pickle" means exactly. Of course, life is like a box of chocolates, but a pickle? Well, I'm glad you asked. The title is actually pretty appropriate in that it may be one of the first legitimately intelligent things I ever wrote. (If you're astute enough to hear a story coming, you should get used to it because, after all, there is a story for everything. There's even a story about how there's a story for everything. But this is not the time for that.)

When I was 8 years old, I wrote what I will call, for the purpose of this story, an "essay" entitled "Life is like a Pickle: Sometimes it's sweet, and sometimes it's sour." I can't reproduce the rest of it here, but it went on to talk about church and how attending church and being a part of God's people will make your life sweet and not sour. The section that is my personal favorite, after reading it again as a semi-adult, quotes verbatim an evangelism tract that has been in the foyer at Beebe Church of Christ since the Apostle Paul was knee-high to a grasshopper. Something along the lines of being "In the Lord's house, with the Lord's people, on the Lord's day." Oh, yeah. All of you BBCofCers know exactly what I'm talking about. Anyway, I don't remember writing this brilliance at all, but apparently my daddy was so proud of it that he showed everybody at church and copies were made and distributed.

So, needless to say, I've been "wordy" for as long as anyone can remember. I like words as more than a friend. It's a love affair that has molded and shaped my life for nearly 22 years now, and I'm currently trying my hardest to make a career out of it.

This blog will mostly be a way for me to indulge my love of language and my incredible self-interest while occasionally (hopefully) fulfilling the needs of my first love language. I hope that all of you in blog-reading-dom enjoy it at least enough to keep coming back because, after all, regardless of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, I'm never writing just for myself.