I’ve succumbed and started a blog. This got me thinking. What does this blog mean to me? I blew the dust from the tops of the red speckled pages of my Webster’s New World Dictionary, 1994 Edition, and turned to “B”. No BLOG. I was not surprised but just to be sure the dictionary included acronyms, I looked up AARP. Yep, it was there. Fast forward fifteen years, the paper dictionary is obsolete and Webster has taken a wife. Assuming Webster’s ball-and-chain hadn’t drug him down; I searched “BLOG” on miriamwebster.com. The result? Weblog. Okay, so I can see where whoever may have got blog from weblog. Someone typing away on their electronic journal is interrupted by the question, “What are you doing?” Since the sole means of communication for the blogger has been through her fingers since an ISP came to town, her voice failed her and all that could be discerned was “blog”. And the rest, as “they” say, is history.
Now that I’ve figured out the universal definition of blog, I turn to the question, what does blog, specifically this blog, mean to me? Blog sounds more to me like an acronym so I went with that: Big Loser Over Grown…Beautiful Literature Only Glib…Border Line Obsessive Gambling…Bit License (for) Obtrusive Gluttony…Business Lagging On Glam…Bitch Loves Own Gushing??? Perhaps not an acronym. Maybe blog for me is short for Belong? I’m still not sure what this blog means to me and I don’t know that I ever will but I invite you to join me on the journey. I suspect that, really, BLOG for me stands for Bound Larceny One Game—the first words I saw starting with B-L-O-G as I flipped through my Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus.
