An Introduction

How boring, right?

The things we share in attempts to define ourselves rarely do a body or rather, a soul, justice. I could simply relay that I am a 33 year old married mother of 2, a part-time college student and a part-time employee of a self managed business and that may be all you need to know to stick around and read my ramblings or quickly click the "return to" button and continue your search for more meaningful discourse.

Who I am is a woman with many different facets of my personality. Mostly sarcastic, rarely mild, often pessimistic and always searching. Searching for knowledge, humor, empathy...meaning. That is all I will say about who I am. Because hopefully, as I continue this blog, who I am will become apparent and who I want to be will emerge.

This is my first attempt at a blog. Usually I just bend the ear of the closest and most attentive until their eyes glaze over and I find myself standing alone amidst tumble weeds and crickets chirping in the back ground. With this blog, I attempt to not only "get it out of my system" as they say but also develop a better sense of my writing style and strengthen my writing "voice". I titled this blog "A View from the Handbasket" for reasons that make me smile inside. For the very reason that while everything around me may be "going to hell in a handbasket"...I, and hopefully you as well, will enjoy the view.