This is my first post and it's my birthday (not quite ready to insert the number but it's divisible by 5, as many of you know). So what is Wanna Be Blogger about? Is it a blog about wanna bes, like wanting to be something that one isn't, or just wanting to be a blogger. If I had to choose, it would be the latter. I want to be a blogger, but don't get me wrong. I wanna be a lot of things and will always wanna be something. Not exactly in wanna be Tina Turner or Beyoncé, although that would be great if you know what I mean, or my all time wanna be-- a tall, beautiful, black woman (that's from growing up in Detroit) background singer in a R&B, rock & roll or jazz band. I'll wait for another life time for that one. I had a dream about being Mick Jagger; Mick was going to switch lives with me! And, I want to be rich, but only a truly happy, enlightened and healthy rich person (money can't buy everything). Of course, I want to be a better person, but still trying to figure out what that means.

If you ask my husband, Eugene, who, by the way, will be an occasional guest blogger--he's got a lot of rants he wants to air-- far and wide, just wait for the one on AT&T, he'll say I'm a "wanna be" nice person. I gave that one a lot of thought, and you know what, damn it, I am nice, at least, nice enough. But more to the point, I have a fascination with blogs or at least the idea of it, which is interesting because I just recently started reading a few. Why do so many people think that they have something worthwhile to share with close to 2 billion people and why the hell should anyone care or take time to read these blogs? And, if they don't have anything worthwhile to blog about, why are they even bothering?

So I ask myself, do I have something worthwhile to share, do I want to spend yet another half hour or even 10 minutes more in cyberspace or on a computer, than I do already in one day? Probably not. Yet, I do feel like I have something to say, whether it's eloquent, profound, relevant, moving, erudite, or grammatically correct (most likely not), I have decided to take the leap, put myself out there in this small small world anyways and see what happens.

So dear reader, if you have spent some of your precious time reading the Wanna Be Blogger, thank you. If you want to continue to follow, you may find on occasion something relevant to your own life from this, among many things, middle aged married woman living in the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco with two sons (ages 12 and 9), who spent many of her professional years working on incredible environmental and human rights campaigns, traveled to many beautiful, depressing and vibrant places, now works for the California state government, loves the ocean, is mediocre at a lot of outdoor sports and master of none (wanna be athlete), is a Giants, Yankees and Tigers fan, refuses to Tweet (o.k. maybe), to eat any organ meat, except the occasional homemade chopped liver, and who is, at this moment in time, the somewhat reluctant Wanna Be Blogger.