Why Blog?

I've decided to start this blog, because I can't finish anything.  I've written bits and pieces of several articles, a few chapters of a book on reading, and about half each, of two curricula.   I have skills checklists, book chapters, articles and book lists scattered all over my hard drive.  I've flip-flopped from writing about math to writing about reading ideas, countless times.

It dawned on me that maybe I can't write a nicely polished, finshed product at this point in my life.  It might be because I allow my kids the privilege of my time, more than I do my computer.  It might be because I don't really care about a neatly packaged curriculum as much as I do about sharing my ideas.  I am constantly running into parents who ask me questions that I can breifly answer, at the moment, but can't ever get into what I REALLY want to say.  (I secretly wish I had a book of my ideas that I could pass along to them!)  I think a blog would be a much better outlet for my desire to write about these ideas.  Blogs are never finished, are they?  

I have written hundreds of pages, that until recently, I have considered unrelated.  But now, in light of my inabliaty to finish anything.  I have decided that they do have a common link.  They are all about how children learn.  

I figure that writing this blog will give others access to the lonely computer files, just waiting to make something of themselves.  If nothing else, it might motivate me to finish one of the many projects I have started over the years.  Either way, I get to write about learning, which is one thing I love to do!  So, please enjoy the reading, add comments and pass this along to other's if you like what you see!