You wouldn’t know it, but I write a blog daily. The reason you wouldn’t know is because I’m composing three out of five in my head. And, I suppose this is a blessing for both me and my 3.2 reading audience, you can’t read my mind.
Therefore, one of my 2010 intents is to be more intent about blogging. The problem for 
me, though, is my blog is as ADD as I am. So, readers come here not knowing if they’ll find a post about Christa the mother, the writer, the grammy, the teacher, the wife, the disgruntled consumer, the observer of Hollywood and/or political antics…This is a problem I’m told because, according to those at the top of the blog food chain, a blog should not be dressed for the beach one day and prom the next, and it should offer something of value the reader can take away. Something more than a smirk or giggle or sigh.
Blog readers, I’m told, care more about themselves than me. And I’m supposed to focus on THEIR needs or problems, not mine.
Seriously? I can barely deal with my own needs and problems. Do readers really trust me to say anything that could possibly help them?
But, I’d like to think that I’m a teachable person, especially because I go to school five days a week and expect the 130+ who sit in my classroom to be teachable.
So, I thought I’d start this new year of blogging by offering my readers ten things of value. Maybe if I focus on ten a day, I might just be able to pull this off.
TEN THINGS TO BE LEARNED FROM RECENT NEWSY STUFF:
1. Never send text messages Tiger that, if printed in newspapers around the world, would have every high-powered divorce lawyer praying for the phone to ring.
2. If something is good enough for the nation, like a health care plan, then it should be equally good enough for the politician who designed it to buy into as well.
3. Do not purchase a Super Bowl package unless you really just want to go to Florida in February whether your team the Saints is there or not.
4. Unmarried couples, even those together for over two decades, are exempt from divorces. They’re just “no longer a couple” or “split up”; the same words my high schoolers use. So, it’s best not to use the word “paramour” to describe the mystery date of one such person, even if you are the New York Post. If you weren’t married in the first place, and are not a couple now, how can you have, by definition, an “illicit lover, esp. of a married person”?
5. There’s absolutely nothing funny about pretending to kidnap a child, even if the child happens to be your own daughter and was a willing participant in the joke.
6. Flossing can be dangerous. Even if you are a vampire.
7. Apparently, you can be having a really bad day as a couple [married] where your spouse is trying to strangle you, resulting in a 911 call, and-later- still be very much in love and want to save your marriage.
8. When you’re President of the United States, a visit with your daughters to buy a “shaved ice treat” (in Louisiana, aka “snowballs’) is cause for a photo opp and a detailed article about flavors both chosen and avoided. He drove there with about 20 people. If you’re a Secret Service agent, no one cares what flavor you picked.
9. Being a terrorist does not require a MENSA membership or even a three digit IQ. You only have to be willing to place an explosive device in your underwear. Makes one wonder what items we’ll have to start putting in those baggies before boarding.
10. Be suspicious of any diet referred to as “drive-thru.” Spending that much time on your rear in an automobile can’t be considered healthy.
