TO BLOG OR NOT TO BLOG

Years ago, I started a blog. Why? Because I saw that dag on movie! You know the one. The film that was so likeable in a surprising way. I mean let’s be honest. You hear about a movie in which Meryl Streep is going to portray Julia Child, and you think, really? Then you watch it, and Streep is just flat out wonderful throughout the whole thing, and you think how does she do that? How does she suck you right into her character? And who knew Julia Child was so tall in real life?

Anyway, the movie called Julie & Julia was a film based on a book by a woman named Julie Powell who gained a fan base by writing a blog about the 524 recipes from a famous Julia Child’s cookbook that she could complete in a year. So, of course, if Julie Powell could become a success by creating a blog, so could anyone, right? So could any aspiring writer, right? So could I, right? Nope. Not even close. Life doesn’t work that way.

I created my blog to bring a little humor and artistic creativity into the lives of any bored person who could read and had access to the Internet. In return for my efforts, I had exactly one loyal reader. One reader. Uno reader. Less than two, only one more than zero reader. However else you can say just one, that’s what I had.

I had one friend who read every single word I wrote and loved it, but who never left a comment. I’m not kidding. She used to read my entries, and e-mail me to tell me how much she loved my blog. Why she never left comments is a mystery to me. I mean a comment or two would’ve been nice to see. Maybe she was too shy to post a comment. That doesn’t seem to make sense. There was no one else reading the thing. Why be shy? She actually got upset when I told her I wouldn’t be continuing the blog. I told her, “You’re the only one reading it! You know I can just call you directly and tell you whatever I would’ve posted , right?”

Never mind.

I wrote this just to let you innocent dreamers out there know that you can’t expect the moon just because you get bamboozled by a movie, but it is possible that Meryl Streep can play any role. I’d like for a director to ask her to play a chair and see what she does. I bet she wouldn’t bat an eye at the challenge. I bet she’d just ask if she had to be a plain armchair or a Queen Anne.