What's in a blog?

So, I always thought creating and maintaining a blog was a little presumptuous. I mean, what makes ME think that anyone -- friends, family or strangers -- would want to read MY thoughts about ANYTHING? Who am I? Why is my perspective so important? But then I realized three important things:

1. Everyone's perspective is important.
2. This will get me in the habit of writing regularly.
3. This is a good way for me to engage in substantive "conversations" with friends who are all over the country.

And so, as I sit here in Naperville, Illinois, quite literally in the dark, pounding on keys illuminated only by the light of my laptop screen, I am creating my first blog in the hopes that I can contribute some nugget of wisdom to someone somewhere about something.

I am calling this blog "Deep Thoughts" after the SNL skit with Jack Handy. Perhaps some of his witty and outlandish humor will rub off on me. I leave you with this Deep Thought for the night, courtesy of Handy himself: "Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate words "mank" and "ind." What do these words mean? It's a mystery and that's why so is mankind."