Today I came to my blog for the first time in a while with conflicting thoughts.  I still don’t really know what to do with this thing.  Carl told me to just write.  He says its a good exercise, a good place to save my thoughts, and a good place to reflect on teaching.  I agree with him, but I can’t help but think that if going to publicly share my thoughts and experiences then they need to be worth sharing.  Furthermore, I owe it to anyone who might accidently stumble to my blog to write posts that are well thought out and well written, and I’m not super confident in my ability to do create such posts.  There are lots of good writers with great voices sharing ideas and experiences in the MTBoS and I’m not sure I really stack up well enough to justify this blog at all.

So I came to my blog to see what I had so far and contemplate what I should do going forward.  What I found was 12 drafts dating back to September of 2014 many of which were nearly completed.  Some of them I really liked.  I realized that I kinda had been blogging this last school year, I just had rarely published anything.  So before I give up on the blog, or try to rethink how I want to approach blogging going forward, I want to publish some of the ideas I was working on all year.

I’m reminded of a Nas song called Book of Rhymes where Nas basically flips through his notepad and starts rapping random verses that he had started but never finished.  It makes for a pretty cool song.  You should look it up if you like that kind of thing.  And it inspires me to publish some of my ideas even if they are unfinished or imperfect.  So this summer I’m making it my goal to do something with all those drafts.  Maybe through the process I can get a better idea of what I want to get out of this blog.  Here goes nothing…