Ok - this is my last chance. I've started and ultimately abandoned
several blogs before, and if this one doesn't stick, I may have to accept that
I'm just not cut out to be a blogger. So that this blog doesn't end up going
the way of "The Big Checklist" and "Barron of the Road," I'm
establishing some two ground rules:
1 - No Post Shall Exceed 300 Words
2 - There is to be No One Designated
Subject
In the past, I think I was inhibited from
blogging because I assumed that my posts had to be reasonably lengthy - and I
didn't always feel like taking the time to write something lengthy. (I'm kind
of a slow writer, and I am rather easily distracted. During my composition of
the preceding hundred words or so, I've checked Facebook, e-mail and ESPN,
several times each.)
That being said, I have all kinds of things on my mind (baseball,
music, video games, books) and I want to cover all of them on here. I thought
about starting a movie blog, or a restaurant blog or a blog in which I post a
bunch of clips of myself playing guitar, but instead, I think this is going to
end up being an Everything Blog. Provided it takes – which I hope it does.
“Bank of Barron,” incidentally, was a concept created by some of
my ninth grade students last year. I once asked them some trivial question and
told them that a correct answer would be rewarded with “50 double secret bonus points.”
One of them told me that he’d prefer $50 – and another suggested that maybe I
would spring for 50 Barron Bucks instead. Thus, the concept of Barron Bucks and
The Bank of Barron was born. I love my students.
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