a new beginning

Well, I've tried other blogs but I'm not a good fictional writer. I can't keep up with the stories at a pace that needs to be set to keep an audience. . . I also can't really make them that interesting. They tend to be a lot better in my head when they start, but I am not good at getting past the start. So, I've decided to look at my own life. For me, my life is pretty normal. I get up, I eat breakfast, I go to work, I come home from work, I talk with my wife, play with the pets and go to bed.

However, I realized that my life isn't like everyone else's. When I wake up, I'm lying on a matress on the floor. When I eat breakfast, I sometimes eat rice and soup and kimchi. When I go to work, I am one of two English speakers in a place with over 1000 people. I live in a country that has nearly 49 million people crammed into a landmass just a bit larger than Indiana. The woman I love more than anything I've ever loved before is not only of a different race, but a different native language and a completely different culture. My pets aren't dogs and cats but rabbits. My life is not normal. I have friends here in Korea that make it seem like my life is not that unusual, but when I look at everyone I've known through my life, I've had quite an interesting life.

The goal of this blog is to be my creative outlet as well as a way to communicate with everyone about what I've been doing. Its a way for me to express whats going on in my mind as my life's pages keep turning. I'm in the middle of a chapter now and I can't wait to get to the next one; but like so many books, I want to be able to read it again and again because its quite fun. However, no one is documenting my thoughts and actions. So, I guess that's up to me.

Periodically, I may insert entries from some of my fictional blogs so that I can keep that story progressing but at my own pace. I thrive on feedback, so please, follow and comment.

Thanks

Jamie