Late to the Party…The Fuse

“According to recent statistics from blog-tracking site Technorati, the blogosphere has doubled every six months for the last three years. That’s 175,000 new blogs per day worldwide. Technorati added its 50 millionth blog on July 31, 2006…”–(read the article here)

Alright, I confess…I’m behind the times.  While it seemed like everyone and their mothers were starting their own blog, I resisted the temptation.  However, I was always intrigued by the idea–imagine a place to vent my thoughts, express opinion and share my insights (however misguided they may be at times) about the beautiful mess called life.  My mind races with a million random thoughts and ideas everyday…why not document them and make them public?

Now, OK…if you are anything like me you are probably thinking “Hey, who the hell cares what you think and what your opinions are?”  I know that feeling–most blogs I have read are a colossal waste of time.  However, there are a handful of great ones that have not only been entertaining and educational but life-changing and inspirational.  It would be pretentious of me to assume that any of my writings will reach that level but, hopefully, they will land somewhere in between.  Along the way, I hope that something here will spark an interest and create a dialogue that will be beneficial to whoever comes across them.

What’s with the name?  The Fuse.  A fuse is defined as a cord of readily combustible material that is lighted at one end to carry a flame along its length to detonate an explosive at the other end.   Sounds heavy and that’s a lot to live up to; the truth is that most of the topics and opinions will not be combustible and the conclusions we reach will not be entirely explosive.  But you have to aim high right?  Welcome to the Fuse.