Starting Over

I’ve blogged intermittently for a few years now. As a serving military officer, I was constrained in what I wrote for publication, even on a blog that nobody was reading. In the past year or so I’ve used the platform primarily as a repository for book reviews, and I’ve use the book reviews primarily to remember what I’ve read and what I thought about it. Middle age does terrible things to the memory.

Now that I’m retired, I feel the urge to speak more freely. This blog will serve at a minimum as a vent for the thoughts clogging up my head–as a way to sort through mental impulses and first impressions and turn them into coherent ideas with proper sourcing. I will need to discipline myself to think ideas through and critique them before they come out.

It will also serve to put first drafts out where others can see and critique them. Consequently, it’s important to note that this blog may contradict itself from time to time, or even frequently. It may include half-assed thoughts that seemed clear and well-supported when I typed them. If I subsequently think better of them, or if readers (aw optimism) convince me I’m mistaken, I will endeavor to publish corrections in the same venue in which I published the original error.