What's It About?

"What's your blog about?"  I'm grateful to only have been asked that question once or twice.  I don't have a good answer.  It's about this and that, random stuff.  When I started the blog, it was going to be about our family and that still is a primary topic.  But, somewhere along the way, I strayed from that path and allowed myself to blather about just about anything.  I thought not having a definitive topic would make it easier to come up with posts but sometimes I think just the opposite is true.

I do have a few guiding principles that I apply when writing for this blog.  I avoid using profanity.  I try to respect people's privacy as best I can.  I try not to be mean or derisive.  The only person I'm absolutely comfortable making fun of is myself (I should have plenty of material).  I continually remind myself that my kids are very computer savvy and could easily find their way to this blog.  I write, therefore, with the expectation that they will one day read what I've written.

You may have noticed the "Next Blog>" link at the top of this page.  It's something that Blogger provides.  It's supposed to take you to another blog similar in language and content to the one you are currently reading.  This concept has intrigued me.  Perhaps the best way to figure out what my blog is about is to see what Blogger thinks it's similar to.  As a test, I tried clicking the Next Blog link from my blog's home page.  I then returned to my home page and clicked the Next Blog link again.  I tried this five times and got blogs with the following topics:

1. Living with asthma
2. Rap music and the recording industry
3. Battling obesity
4. High-lighting other blogs of note
5. Aspergillosis

I'm note sure what to make of it other than that the Blogger Next Blog algorithm could use some work.  I'm pretty sure I've never written about any of these things (the last one I had to look up just to find out what it was).  I guess I'm stuck with the only thing those five sites seemed to have in common with mine:

"What's your blog about?"
"Well, it's written in English."