Almost 14 years since my last public blog post, I somehow stumbled upon my last two unfinished drafts.
Remember when so many of our friends were writing interesting blogs? Is anyone even writing full articles anymore? Heck, are there even full paragraphs being published by us normal folks? Shoot, I barely see complete sentences on the major social media platforms. I mean, today's character-counting tweet culture has resorted to shorthand that barely includes complete words, or even letters. The emoji comms style feels like we have come full circle - I guess the hieroglyphic cave drawings (like the vinyl record) was bound to make a major comeback!
This week, I am reaching out to some of my circa 2008 blogging friends to challenge them to get back in the saddle. #bringbloggingback Maybe I can even get Sean Tevis to repost all of his highly entertaining and authentic content that got whitewashed when the political strategists took over his image in 2008. (I wonder if Sean will even respond to my phone calls: Sean DID answer the call and says he is IN!). Other challenge call-outs go to my dear high school friend and career freelance writer Kim Olson and serial entrepreneur Kimberly Corbitt.
I will leave it to Sean to post the official blogger redux challenge: For now, I am just going to ease into it and knock the dust off of this draft and try to figure out where I was going with all of this.... having spent countless hours on the sidelines of youth sports as a volunteer coach and photographer I have more observations, reflections and strong opinions than I would ever try to fit in one post, so let's just go back and see what November, 2009 Tom had to say about things:
