Ah yes… the perennial “first blog post”. I’ve written my fair share of them. We think they’re lame not because they are, but because they need followup. Like leaders – lone nuts until the first follower.

It’s easy to write your first blog post. I suspect the second one is the hardest and then it progressively gets easier. I’m determined to find out.

I’ve had numerous free blogs in my time, and even got beyond the first post in a few of them! A personal blog, a professional blog, a food blog, a Christian blog (can blogs, entities that aren’t sentient, be Christian??)

I finally took the plunge and bought my own site, and have committed to just this one – apologies if it turns out to be a little bit eclectic/disparate. After the fun of choosing themes drinking (too much) wine with The Silver Fox (my partner) I realised I would actually have to write something… scary!! That’s right. Fear. Why was I so afraid of writing? The fear descended because every post I could think of I immediately discarded because “no – I couldn’t write that!” Opinions. My opinions. My possibly-wrong-but-still-mine opinions. Someone might disagree with me! Someone might say I’m wrong. Someone might convince me I’m wrong.

Then I realised how stupid that sounds. Who cares!? I’m a scientist which means it kinda my life’s work to have hypotheses (thoughts, opinions), test them (write a blog post) and then be proven right or wrong.

So I’m going to write what I want to write. I reserve the right to change my mind. I reserve the right to look like an idiot in the process.

I refuse to be afraid of who I am.