And so it begins...

You've read my philosophical musings on the Washington Ethical Society email chat list (or not). you've been moved to write my editor about the scintillating articles I've written for Chemical Innovation, Today's Chemist at Work, and Modern Drug Discovery (or not). You've checked the "me too" box 'neath my pithy comments about numerous articles in the Washington Post online (or not). And now, you're reading the very first blog posting on The Word Chemist. Can you feel the magic? Maybe a tiny exotherm? A slight increase in your entropy?

Blogging was one of those things that I've been meaning to do for a while, but did I really have anything to say that hasn't been said in all the other squillion and one other blogs out there? Perhaps not, but it's all in the way you say it, isn't it? I was actually trying to resurrect a dusty old legacy Blogspot account (pre-Google) so that I could post a comment on my sister's blog, Still Designing Stuff. I got stuck in screen-cycle hell and the only way out was to start completely from scratch, which inolved setting up my own blog, which involved creating an initial posting, so here I am.

To follow: assorted detritus from an ever so slightly left of center mid-generation baby-boomer, living ever so slightly outside our nation's capital. (Our nation being the USA, for all my many fans around the globe.) And so it begins...