Something New

Although I have thought about creating a blog for some time now, I never give myself enough time to work out the technology, nor do I trust myself to get into a normal routine. I'm still not great at technology, and I may abandon this in a few weeks, but I thought, why not? I can mark it off my bucket list, and see if I like it enough to keep going. Right now I am part of the Red Clay Writing Project at UGA, so for the next 3 weeks I'll have about two hours of scheduled writing time in the afternoon (pretty awesome, right?).

I came up with the idea for the title of the blog in the very same 68 seconds I decided to write a blog. 
I wondered what I would write about, and then I thought about something my dad used to say when I was growing up. He'd ask me what I learned at school, and like I'm sure my students do to their parents, I would shrug and say, "Nothing really." He would look at me like I was crazy and say, "You learn something new every day."


Why I Choose the Title "Something New"

• The word "new" has a great connotation- a new outlook, new day, new season, they even have a new car smell crayon.
• "Something New" doesn't lock me in to anything. In fact, it will give me more to write about.
• I write all the time and don't share it- the sharing part will be new to me, even if only my mom reads it. Hi, mom. I knew you'd read this :)
• It's a good reminder to look for new things, do new things, create new things, meet new people, take on a new challenge
• This is one of my favorite pictures I have taken, and I love it because of the message it sends. It represents something new.  Every time I see it, I want to jump on the bike and go somewhere new. 
•  I'm ready to turn over a new leaf, start something new. This was a challenging year for me, and it's always refreshing to have a new start.
•  The Christian faith is full of themes of newness: becoming a new person, renewing your mind, singing a new song, a new covenant through Jesus, receiving new mercy every morning (thank God (literally) because I need it), new life, etc.
•  The first verse that came to my mind with this title is one that has been very encouraging to me in the past. In difficult seasons, I resonate with this, and it brings me comfort: "My beloved said to me, 'Arise my darling, my beautiful one,/ See! the winter is past; the rains are over and gone/ Flowers appear on the earth/ the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves are heard in our land.'"

Things you may or may not see on my blog: things I wonder about, a brief thought, random lists, poetry, new experiences, old experiences (I'm not knocking the old- writing about it will be new), bizarre/funny/stunning/interesting things I see or hear, fiction pieces I try (keyword: try), an occassional grammatical or spelling error even though I teach English (did you catch it?), and other stuff.
*You will not see food because I cannot (or rather do not) cook, and it is mean to show you food when you cannot take it out of the computer and eat it.
I'll try to post daily, and I'll try to keep it short. Hope I get a few readers- right now I've got three (my mom, my husband, and my sister, Allison). Hi, Allison, I knew you'd read it, too. :)