Blogging Tips

I was reading an article about blogging today, thinking maybe I'd pick up some useful tips. The author was talking about the importance of posting a photo of yourself. She said that people want to see the real you, not a picture of your pet, or something generic like a flower.

Oops.

Well, I'm not putting up a photo of myself. I just can't write about my life without keeping some degree of anonymity. I mean, I can barely tell my therapist this stuff, and I know perfectly well that I'm paying for her confidentiality. I know that it's not rational to pay to see a therapist and then get annoyed when they ask personal questions, but there you are. Anyway, it's the insurance company that's paying.

I actually have a pretty good therapist, even though every week I swear that I'm going to break up with her. Her name is Joan, and she's 107 years old. Well, maybe not really, but she seems like it. I'm usually glad after I see her, but at the same time almost every week she says at least one thing that irritates me. This week she asked me what I'm going to be for Halloween, and when I told her I'm going to be a devil she cocked her head to one side and asked "What kind of devil are you going to be, Violet?" in this meaningful tone. Sometimes a two-dollar pitchfork from the Halloween store is just a two-dollar pitchfork form the Halloween store, Joan.

So here's the deal...no photo. Also no real names. But I do promise to stay with the "emotional truth" as Joan likes to call it. I'll try it for awhile and see how it goes.