Every once in a while it had occurred to me that the name I gave to this blog, “Get a Life….,” would come across negatively to anyone reading it. I made the name before I had even fully understood what a blog was and before I made my first entry. At the time my impression of a blog was an online journal in which navel gazing 20-something’s exposed their emotions to the world. Yet I wanted to learn what blogging was all about since 20-something’s (university students) are our target audience.

Since then I discovered that I like the whole idea of blogging, and I’ve come to realize that only some people use their blogs for navel gazing. Furthermore, while it may be flattering myself to think anyone would be interested in my life, I know I am very interested in mundane details of others’ lives. And I have seen that this blog is really like an open email to our family and friends. (Even so, Cathy regularly harasses me. She’ll say mockingly, “Dear Diary. Today I …..”)

So as I had the occasion to start a new blog (more research), I had the occasion to find a new name.

Cathy came up with “Small Adventures.” It may still change again. Maybe I’ll just keep changing names as often as I post new entries. (No, I won’t. That would confuse the search engines like Google.)

The point is that if you felt that “Get a Life” was a comment directed at you, it wasn’t. It was what I thought of myself as I starting this blog.

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