WELCOME AND PLEASE BE INDISCREET

If it is January, it must be time to launch a new blog.

Here it is, Indiscreetly Us. See how I am tugging you guys into it with me? Yeah, I try to be slick. I'm not, but I try.

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I have been blogging for approximately four years and find it both rewarding and frustrating. For the usual reasons.

Also, I am in the process of writing my third, unpublished, novel and I need a fresh perspective. The characters are solid and I remain hopeful for them, but there is a time to let it simmer and this is it. Please know that I am also, typically, hopelessly optimistic. It's a fault and one I'm fairly happy with. Back to the novel I will go, but not today.

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Discreetly Us is just something I thought up on this rainy day here in West Palm Beach. The drizzle is soaking the rich and not-so-rich, my dog is sleeping beside me, jazz is playing and I can hear street sounds from below. I live in a high rise.

Looking out at the fogginess of it I wondered, could I produce a blog and get any level of participation? I mean my other blog, Bark 'r Howl, gets semi-respectable stats, but little to zero participation.

As a blog reader I get how this works. Absolutely. I visit blogs, read them and leave without making comments. Why? Because I like being anonymous. I like the idea of secretly reading my guilty pleasures and then sliding away. Secretly, see?

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Secrets brought me to discreet, and that word a blog does not make. Discreet? Hardly.

However, I did not want to birth a blog with topics causing people to make nasty comments and bring the hate. But, it would be interesting to see if I could create a modicum of interest in sharing, well, secrets. Indiscreetly. Stay with me.

Could it be fun to share our stories, ideas, random thoughts or gripes? That being said, Indiscreetly Us came to mind. Let's talk it out. Major, minor and all things inbetween.

And, it is possible to be discreet while posting your Indiscreetly Us shenanigans. Well, it can be.

Seriously, you can find a way to make it anonymous if you really want. You know how and if you don't, it has to do with creating fun email addresses for yourself. Get it now?

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Will this blog sit here and mold like a hunk of cheese in my refrigerator? Could be. But, here I am, listening to and looking at the rain and feeling that old optimism creeping into my head.

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My indiscreet tidbit for today? Gee, I have so many, but I am going to confide in you that I play Cityville on Facebook, watch that inane show, Kendra and eat mini-cupcakes from the bakery at Publix (grocery chain). Good start, I think.

You got anything better? Let me indiscreetly hear it and that moldy cheese comment? Totally bogus. I love cheese and there is no way in hell it would ever be left long enough to mold.

Indiscreetly Yours,
The Bark