Happy Birthday to PASSION = TRUTH!

I can't believe it's been a year since I first joined the hundreds of thousands of bloggers across the universe (I'm not that naive to think there aren't intelligent bloggers in other galaxys).

And to celebrate my one-year anniversary - meet Domino, my roommate's new 4-month-old lab-pit mix puppy. She greeted me last night when I arrived back in Culver City from a peaceful, Easter weekend away in Tujunga with Donovan, Maria and baby Grace - whose new nickname is "Brett" (she's crawling like a maniac now). We drove out to Calabassas for drinks with friends and got an ass-chewing from a prospective Los Angles mayoral candidate for smoking within 20 feet of Grace (I won't get into the discussion). Then spent Easter in Laguna Niguel with Maria's family. Anyway, cute dog, Domino. Big, big mistake though - in my opinion. But I'm just a guest so my opinion is worthless.

When I first began PASSION = TRUTH it was as a fun, writing exercise and a way for me to vent. It's been a unique learning process, one I'm continuing to stumble through. Let's see...since March 24, 2007, my friend's baby Grace was born into this world in July; my QB retired from the NFL - devastating news we knew would happen sooner than later, but the Packers had a fantastic year and Brett rode off into the sunset on his terms; blogging has hit closer to home - three cousins, the one cousin's wife, my high school buddy Tony in NY and another buddy Mark in Cedar Rapids all started blogs of their own; made my first trip to NYC for a reading of one of my plays; survived a microburst in Irving Park, and am closer to making some life-changing decisions. I'm nearing 500 posts - with this month setting a single-month record. I've heard from people I haven't talked to years and read comments from people who are only strangers to me. All in all, a very enjoyable experience.

I've talked at length about the responsibility writers with access to the media have in disseminating their opinions and observations in an intelligent manner. Everyone's got an opinion. The 6-year-old I live with has an opinion. Through this mundane, verbose, self-indulgent task of writing a blog I've made in my singular task to present my opinions supported with research and concrete facts that you, the reader, can wade through and formulate your own opinion.

In the process of becoming a "blogging extraordinaire" (right), I've discovered new technologies and fancy widgets that I hope to utilize and make PASSION = TRUTH even better for the next year. I'm intent on getting the blog out to more people and have contacted several blogging consultants for their help. So we'll see where that takes me. Where it takes us.

I hope you've enjoyed perusing. And I hope you continue to do so. And if you remember nothing else from this blog or from life, remember this - PASSION = TRUTH.