Where to Take This

I have never wanted to focus on just one type of issue.  Whether it is sports, personal life, or political issues, I have wanted to keep my options open for writing.  I try to cover anything and everything.  As long as I find it fun to write about.  I know I do not have a huge reader base so anything that goes on here reaches mainly family and friends.  Unless you are someone who stumbled across this, in which case, welcome!

I think I need a jar of ideas for when I want to write, but cannot think of anything at the moment.  Occasionally, I just peruse the news stations or websites to see what is going on to get ideas.  I am not the biggest fan of doing that because I am just following the trend like everyone else and can get lost in the shuffle of the topic.  So if there is something I find interesting, I give it a few days or weeks to write about.  This is where a jar of ideas would come in handy.  If I forget about the topic, I'd find it eventually.  

As far as topics, I find sports intriguing.  Of course it would be too easy to just write about teams that I enjoy watching or following, I want to touch on more interesting things.  Players cheating is at the top of everyone's list.  Anyone shocked by Lance Armstrong clearly had their head buried in the sand.  I'm not shocked by players getting busted for cheating, I'm surprised when they pass their drug tests.  I'll hit up the Super Bowl topic in the near future (before Sunday would be best, yes?) and the insane coverage it gets.

Politics is always fun, but frustrating.  Like anyone else that does this, I do it to get my opinion out there so my head doesn't explode.  The best place for ideas is on paper...or the internet.  Political topics are tricky because people get very passionate about them.  Passion occasionally turns into aggression.  I like to discuss and calmly debate topics, not scream about them.  Gun control and regulation can be written about every day if I wanted to.  I covered it once, I might do another write up if the mood strikes me.   

Personal life is really the only other topic.  My life is kind of boring.  I work, I drink, I travel home occasionally.  My wife and I don't have any kids, we don't have to deal with home ownership, we currently live in the suburbs of the Twin Cities so we don't get into the metro area very often to experience the different things that are going on down there.  I'm pretty boring. 

Those are the main things I write about, but I don't think I can dedicate this blog to just one type of topic.  It would be very limiting.  Would it be possible to just write about politics or sports?  Absolutely.  There are tons of blogs that cover just those subjects.  I just don't want to be one of them.