I think I suffer from something called blog block. I facebook. I twitter. I write all kinds of book reviews and other stuff. I read other people’s posts, tweets, blogs and blahs. In the olden days most respectable people kept their opinions and thoughts to themselves. But I never considered myself (in my be-honest-with-yourself moments) a respectable person. So I blabbed thoughts all over the place. In these good new days everybody is more or less required to be an un-respectable blabbermouth (or should that be bloggermouth?). What’s worse, they’ve all got an agenda. Maybe it’s my advancing years but it sure seems like everyblogger is out for one thing — self-promotion. It’s in many of those so-called celebrity tweets and facebook pages. It’s in the “expert opinion” of the TV talk show consultant whose career could use a boost if s/he simply says the controversial thing on a morning show. It’s everywhere. Am I the only one finding this tiresome? It’s enough to make me shut my own mouth. Hah. Like that’ll happen. But it is enough to make me blog-shy. It’s why my brain has started to shrink wrap it’s thoughts if I even look at a blank blog page. This is an exception. There will be others. I am reading a couple of books I would dearly love to tell you about. But they won’t get a lot of readers since I have no axe to grind and stand to gain nothing by talking about them. ‘S’okay with me. Have a great day and remember: if you want to be contrary, keep your thoughts to yourself.