After a much needed break, a time to reflect, I'm back and ready to blog! I needed to put my book reviews and blog into perspective. I found myself facing expectations that, quite honestly, made me uncomfortable. I realized that I needed a "mission statement" for what I do.
My blog was intended as a small vehicle to share my reading interests with family and friends. Much to my surprise and delight, I received hits from almost every corner of the globe. The downside was that I began to take myself and my blog a little too seriously, feeling guilty if I took a few days off and feeling a little awkward in writing my own little insights apart from book reviews.
But I'm a curious and off-kilter person by nature and things and words strike me differently than they might other people. I have one friend who often tells me that I "think too much!" Is that even possible??
Just last week I had to replace a light bulb. When I looked at the GE packaging, I noticed that my 60 watt incandescent bulb packaging also included information about the number of life hours of the bulb and 630 lumens. For many decades, I never noticed how many lumens were in my bulbs. Try to look up lumens, the noun, and this is the definition.....
1. The Sl unit of luminous flux, equal to the amount of light emitted per second in a unit solid angle of one steradian from a uniform....blah blah blah.
2. The central cavity of a tubular or other hollow structure in an organism or cell.
I don't know about you, but I'm definitely not a rocket scientist and don't feel I need to know the lumens of my bulbs, or that I even have a better understanding of lumens, but my bulb works great.
The upshot of my meanderings is that I'm going to continue to provide the best and most honest reviews of the books I read from my point of view. I'm also going to have a little more fun with my "Lynn's Blog" entries so I hope you'll come back often to visit and read what I write.
We're heading to the Jersey shore today with our son Robert and our daughter-in-law Stacey for a day of boardwalk french fries and skeeball...the REAL Jersey Shore! I hope you all enjoy this beautiful and sunny Easter and get to spend time with people you love.
Happy Easter!
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