Blogging Confession

For over a year now, I've been teaching a high school Creative Writing class. In that class my students create blogs so that they can share their perspective with the blogging work.  I've listened, read, and watched as my students gradually overcame their fear of blogging, and blossomed as writers and thinkers.

But here comes the confession . . .

That fear, the one my students have when clicking publish on their first blog post? I still have it. Sure I regularly post assignments on the class blog, but those are just assignments. It's like accidentally leaving an assignment sheet behind in the photocopier.  If someone picks it up and reads it, it's no big deal.  If a colleague wants to borrow the assignment, they are more than welcome to it. But blogging about my opinions? Now that's different. It's more like leaving my journal in photocopier room and letting my colleagues read it. Or worse yet, copying a page and putting it in their mailbox. 

Unlike my students, I've never overcome the fear of sharing my opinions in the blog form. Until now.