CALL ME SNAKE

I  recently got a note, on this blog, from a cousin I hadn’t talked to in years. I heard from an engineer in Arkansas that I’d met years ago at the Jet Propulsion Lab thanks to this blog. And CALL ME SNAKE has also helped me keep in touch with an old high school buddy (and an occasional cribbage rival) who’s now based in Tennessee.

Part of the idea of blogging, as was explained to me by one guy before I got into the game, is to try to push yourself to have at least “one good idea a day.” Just one blogworthy item to put down, and the bar in terms of “worthy” can be set pretty low. So you try to do that, put something out there, and then comes the fun part: You see what comes in.

I still remember the first time I posted something on CALL ME SNAKE more than four years ago. In less than a minute of putting that online—whatever it was I posted—I got a comment from somebody I didn’t know, and that blew me away. That element makes this a new kind of experience that’s different from any of the means of expression that were available before.