First Blog

     I'm so nervous. I promised myself and all the rest of my family that I'd blog today. That was several months ago. It's strange that I should be so worried about this written form of communication because I love to write and I seem to have no problem communicating in every other way. In fact, the title of my blog is a direct quote from my husband who claims that I have no unspoken thoughts. 

     I think I'm nervous about blogging because when my thoughts cross my brain and immediately come out of my mouth I know that they will just disappear into the air and, hopefully, quickly be forgotten by those who may have heard them. And when I "write" stuff for a class or something I can spend hours analyzing, editing, deleting and re-writing before I let anyone read it. (This is a picture of me letting my thoughts out into the ocean where not even my husband could hear them above the wind and the waves. That was before i was a blogger) 

     But blogging is supposed to be like talking - like a quick everyday conversation with - who?? That's what I want to know. Anyone in the whole world could read my thoughts and they might . . . what? Laugh at me or something? Well, since the only ones who will probably ever read this are my family members I shouldn't care because they already laugh at me.

    

    My husband bugs me to blog a review after we every movie we see. I don't know why, but he thinks I should be a movie critic. Probably just because he wishes I would stop talking so much and just write it down. I can get very opinionated about a movie - as if I really know good acting, editing or screen plays whatever. But I know if a show is inspiring, thrilling, thought-provoking or if I'm just worried about how much longer I can wait before going to the ladies room.

    Tonight we saw "The Great Debators" with Denzel Washington. Can Denzel ever be anything but great? One would expect a show about a debate team would be thought-provoking and it was. It was also surprisingly somewhat action packed - the kind of action that I'm dreadfully afraid will result in the death of a main character. But when a movie has me caring that much about the characters  then I know it's a pretty good one. 

    This movie is really too much to cover appropriately in my first blog. So I'll just say that even though I felt a bit manipulated and I could have told you it was produced by Oprah even without Harpo Productions in the credits - I was inspired. The acting was amazing. The points were well taken and I love to see there are still many stories from American History yet to be told - even if they are embellished a bit. I give it an A.