A learning about blogs

Someone asked me for my blog’s URL last night and I couldn’t remember it. I think that’s because the URL is different from the name.

While I know every word I write is unforgettable, if I hope to attract and maintain any followers at all, it makes sense to remove that barrier. So welcome to “Usually, For The Most Part.”

When I started blogging a couple of months ago, I came here to blogspot.com because they make it so easy. The only downside: my blog name (Generalizations) wasn’t available as a URL. And I really liked “Generalizations.” It fit what I wanted to do with the blog. It looked cool on the masthead. And it fits me.

Watch out, here comes the digression.

Twenty-five years ago (way back), when I was a minister for a few years, one of the people who sat through my Sunday morning ramblings made me a T-shirt with the letters MOTNFTMP on it. It stood for “more often than not for the most part.” After listening to me for a while, she spotted my inclination to generalization. She was right and it became a joke between us.

Another digression: This tendency to generalize is symptomatic of my mind’s geography. I’m so far out on the conceptual end of the conceptual-concrete continuum, I’m almost learning disabled. (Another story for another blog entry.) Hand me some facts and my head automatically digresses and generalizes. I lose details almost immediately — ask my wife — but retain conceptual frameworks forever.

Enough of that.

This blogging thing is a learn-as-you-go experience. So out with “Generalizations.” Welcome to the new and wonderful “Usually, For The Most Part.”

And a huge welcome to the millions of new followers who will undoubtedly join my current seven.