Why am I starting a blog?

Hmm good question. Why is it I feel I need to keep up with the Joneses and start a blog like everyone else? Who first came up with the idea anyway? According to NY Magazine, January 1994 Swarthmore student Justin Hall creates first blog ever, Links.net. Sixteen years ago? Really? And I'm just starting my own now? Yikes! I did not realize I was that far behind with the times. I wonder what else I am behind on? Once I get this blog process down pat, will there be another new fangled tool out there that I need to learn?

Whenever I try something new, I always turn to Google and research the 'best' way or 'how to' do my new venture successfully. Umm, when I googled the word "blogging" it said there were about 66,100,000 matches to that word. Yikes! How does one choose between 66 million websites which few are the 'best' to learn about blogging? I have trouble choosing what I want to eat off of a menu restaurant. There is no way I will be able to make a decision with all those choices.

Then of course there are the wishful thinking blog websites claiming you can make money from the comfort of your own home simply by blogging? Seriously? If that is true, wouldn't the unemployment rate plummet as there would be a new "job" for just about everyone?

I am not sure what the answer to all my confusion is.........I guess it makes sense for me to name my blog "Hmm and Why?"