And We're Off!!!

So here we go, Ladies & Gentlemen & Children of all ages; the inaugural post on my brand-spanking-new blog; why a blog, you say??? Your nightly Facebook posts are all the "blog" anyone needs!! ;) LOL--well, that's true to a point, but I am obviously limited to a certain amount of words on the old FB (although I do like that I can make longer posts from my Blackberry)--but for anyone who has known me even for 5 minutes can tell you, and as the main title of this endeavor will attest, I am & have always been, since I formed my first utterances, a lover of the spoken word; no surprise, I started speaking at a very young age (my 1st "parlor trick" at age 3, courtesy of my parents, was reading from my father's Sunday New York Times to impress party guests, relatives & assorted visitors-at-large who passed through our home; no idea what the Hell I was reading, of course!! )--but all chop-busting from one of my two long-time best friends (who had the honor to be the 1st one to call my FB posts my "blog": "Why don't you put THAT in your blog??" "I'm sure THAT'LL be in your "blog" tonight!!") aside, the time seemed ripe & as I said on FB, I'm inspired by my sister, the Rock-n-Roll lead-singing soccer Mom herself, as well as my friend of 25 years, the eternal Gypsy Witch, Miss Mary Lee, who have taken this very task on themselves in the last few months; I can't promise that everything I say will be of interest to anyone but me, but I hope to entertain, enlighten, exasperate, enrage & engage each & every one of you who take a chance on my musings--so let's at least have some fun taking this little adventure together :) Until next time....