It's a momentous day for me because it's the first time in my life I've ever written a blog! I'm not very techie but I want to learn how to do a blog. It's very exciting to me to be able to share parts of my life with others, through writing.
When I was a child, my mother took my sister and I to the library every week.
I remember how I looked forward to those childhood trips to the library. There was a wide staircase that led down to the Children's Section and a distinct smell of wood floors and thousands of books. My heart used to pound when I started looking through shelf after shelf of books. I carefully selected the ones I wanted to take home, always wanting to bring as many as I could carry. Leaving the library, I always felt incredibly rich, even if I didn't have a dime in my pocket. This feeling has been repeated thousands of times throughout my life. Even in the worst of economic times, a trip to the library has always made me feel like a million dollars! It still does! But, with the technological revolution that has sprung up around the world, today is a day to test my wings in somewhat of an unfamiliar territory. I'm starting my first blog.
Those early trips to the library definitely resulted in my love of reading. Today, some of my most pleasurable moments are spent curled up in an old overstuffed rocking chair with one of my precious books. I have books on a huge variety of subjects from gardening and religion to homesteading, poetry, and so on. Cookbooks of every kind are still a passion of mine, including my mother's very first Betty Crocker, and my grandmother's Finnish cookbook.
There are so many things I want to share with readers in this blog in the future. It will be a kind of work-in-progress.
So there it is.....my very first post for my spanking new baby blog, Writing from the Orr Homestead at Prairie Hill Farm!
