Hello

Today is the beginning of yet another life activity for me.  I have been thinking about blogging for a long time.  I am not a diarist although I thought about that for a while.  But then, who would read them and why?  I suspect the same could be asked of this process.  I'll have to find out.

First, a bit about me.  I was born in Atlantic City, NJ.  I am an only child.  I spent my adult life in the broadcasting business.   I am a 64 year old retired man who has been living on the North Fork of Long Island for ten years.  I spent most of my working life in Pittsburgh and Columbus, Ohio.  For the last 18 years I have been married to Ellen who was also in the broadcasting business.  She is now involved in cat rescue and other community activities as am I but not to the extent she is.  Upon retirement, I reinvested in my life long hobby of photography and have developed a reputation as a fair to middling landscape photographer.  I don't listen to the radio anymore, but I am a major television watcher.

I have a 33 year old daughter who lives far away from here, but we have a wonderful telephonic relationship and we see one another when we can.  She is my lifeline to the younger generation. She is also living proof that heredity trumps environment as we have very many of the same beliefs and habits that had to come from the gene pool as I was not present for the first 16 years of her life.   My other lifeline to the youth of America is made up of the two photographic interns I take on each year who never cease to amaze me with their technical expertise and their understanding of the life culture which we share.  These kids will do well because failure is not only something they have never considered an option, it is something that if they think about it at all, they think it happens to other people.

When I first retired, I thought that since I was just a year or two ahead of the baby boomers, I would contact the three major television outlets in the city and, for a modest fee, give them unlimited access to my life and ultimate death and all that came in between.  I thought this would appeal to them as our demographic group was becoming the largest segment of the population.  But then I imagined....(roll tape) here I am in the urology office, he's going to check my prostate....all of you know how important this is....." and I thought this show is going to be some sort of  tour of my orifice's, my finances, my marriage and my friendships old and new.  I couldn't imagine myself being that interested in my life, let alone strangers.  I never made the call.  But I have been actively thinking all of my life and maybe some of those thoughts might be of interest to the blogosphere or the ether or the plasma screen or whatever you call this medium.

So, over the next however long this lasts....let's find out.

Only The Best!

Steve

PS...Thanks, Nancy for showing me how to technically to do this.

PSS Don't miss "Fringe" on Fox tonight.