Don't Get Cornered

Russell, my brother in law, writes the blog Corner Pieces about the random events in his life.  Most of his posts are about his daughters (not coincidentally my nieces) which itself lends itself to humorous topics, however he has a real knack adding hilarious bits and pieces into each post.  If you met him in real life you'd see that he is as funny in person as on the blog.

My goals for this blog are two fold: create an outlet for my creativity that, lets be honest here, very few will read and to give those readers a smile or two in each post.  You might be asking what happens when you bottle up all that creativity.  After many years - first grade in my case - of doing just that I can convincingly say not much. However releasing it in many alternative ways (did I mention the bad paintings in the prior post) has allowed me to channel any ill emotions I might have to something constructive.  Not that those emotions would go to anything destructive, but it releases them much more quickly.

Making others smile is much trickier.  I'm a firm believer that you either have it or you don't when it comes to humor.  Putting it to paper (or my screen in this case) is much harder since the reader doesn't get to hear my voice inflections or see me grin to know when it's time laugh; it might end up being one of those polite smiles, but in my own mind's eye I know they are curling up laughing on the inside.

I hope and plan on keeping most of the posts here less serious and more light-hearted so that a bit of humor can seep into them.  After all, I don't want to put myself into a corner where that smile can't be sought after.