For a few years before I joined Facebook, I kept a blog called Writing Life, and I and my blog were part of a community of bloggers who read each other’s writing, kept track of each other’s lives and thoughts, even got together in the real world from time to time. The ease of Facebook eventually distracted our little blogging community, whose inhabitants eventually wandered away into the shiny world of the new platform, where we occasionally “Like” each other’s posts but interact relatively little beyond that.

Don’t get me wrong — I still like Facebook and plan to keep using it. We connect and reconnect with people from our past, present and future. We share laughs and griefs. We share news and information. Mostly we share pictures. It caters to our short attention spans. It’s great. And it’s fun.

But I find myself missing the blog.

So I’ll begin it again. I’ll try to post every week or two. And I’ll write about words (written and read) and music (written and heard). From time to time I might even repost favorite items from Writing Life.

Anyway, whether folks read or not, I’ll begin writing soon.