Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Blogging As Self-Defense

I’ve created this elaborate blogging empire because I can’t stand feeling vulnerable.


I remember as a kid not getting invited to birthday parties. I remember the big kids dunking me under water and holding my head there for about ten seconds.


I hated that!


I vowed that I would grow and find ways to defend myself.


I wanted to find a way to penetrate any gathering. In eighth grade, I realized that journalism was my perfect entre into society. It was my press pass to life. I could penetrate any world, from pornography to Orthodox Judaism, by saying I was a writer.


Brilliant!


I tend to be uncomfortable in a crowd unless I’m a journalist or a photographer. Then I can be in the mix but keep a professional distance.


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