This is a different kind of blog.  While most blogs list entries chronologically to literally provide a "web log" of a person's passions, this blog also removes entries which no longer reflect my passions. 

In this manner, my blog becomes an ever-evolving self portrait - like a constantly changing sand painting that is never the same from one moment to the next.

Most people, especially creative artists, desire almost above all else to have others see them as they see themselves.

Part of what we portray about ourselves is accurate, part wishful thinking, and part intentional omission so that true facts of our past do not color our image with shadings we believe we have left behind.

I am no exception to this desire.  For me, my self-image is fleeting - fluid in the extreme, and so the contents of this blog shall be fluid as well.

When something I post here appears to me to be of lasting interest, it will make its way onto my personal web site, which documents my activities, experiences, considerations, and attitudes both in categories and sequentially, year by year.

And while that site does represent the highlights and flow of journey over time, only this blog expresses the essence of myself in the present.

Judge me by what I've done.

Know me by who I am.

Melanie Anne