Why not blog? I can think of plenty of reasons not to, and they all come down to time.
Then why blog? Perhaps to force myself to think about, and write about, whatever's going on around me from a different angle, more like a traveler through my own town, but a traveler who already has intimate knowledge of the streets she's winding through.
And when I travel, it's not so much the Great Wall and Forbidden City, not the museums, the restaurants, or battlefields that are still hanging out in my mind years later and that change how I look at the world. It's the contacts with those who live there.
And so it is in Shorewood: the people make the town an exciting place to live. And the location. The eastern boundary is an
endlessly changing view of Lake Michigan from Atwater Bluff. The western boundary is Estabrook Park with its bike path, its trail along the edge of the Milwaukee River, its budding crab apple trees in spring, its frog-filled duck lagoon. The southern boundary abuts the university with a great range of educational opportunities and events, and beyond that lies the cultural landscape of Milwaukee. So in a sense Shorewood is a small town in a big city.
If it's the people and the daily life that interest me, I'm looking at Shorewood not as a journalist but as a journaler.
