Mood:  chillin'

I'm always telling my children "if you want your stuff repeated, write it down" - it's the only way you'll ever be able to let your nearest and dearest know how they fit into your life.

Of course, writing provides you with a way of talking to yourself without gathering strange looks from passers-by. Problem is that years later it can come right back at you and cause you considerable embarrassment,  particularly if you no longer agree with what you wrote.

So is there anything at all that you should keep out of a public blog? - I confess not to being too up on the ettiquette of blogging. To my way of thinking, a blog's little more than a diary and I've kept diaries in the past, though never regularly. Should I reveal the innermost secrets of my thoughts, or would a steady stream of negative reporting too easily put a label on me?

Since becoming a depressive about fourteen years ago it hasn't been easy for me to be anything else. I'm not particularly ashamed of that, though I acknowledge it's probably the wrong way of living my life. The fact that I have managed to survive so far, to the extent of coming to the brink of suicide at one point (and ONLY one) gives me some confidence, strangely enough.

OK, then public it is, warts and all. Feel free to comment any way you will and I will try as far as possible to avoid embarrassing others in my blog. That will be hard.