I remember sitting at home in Las Vegas and watching the news on TV shortly after I'd returned home from my mission and listening to a reporter talk about 'blogs'. I'd served for two years in Washington State, as in, inside of the United States, and yet, I had never in my life heard the word 'blog' (I'd never heard of an iPod before, either. I remember asking my friend, "What's an ipid?"). Anyways, this reporter was talking about blogging like it was common-place (which it was) and I was lost and intrigued! I began researching it and I think I asked Shauna about it. She pointed me toward Blogspot, back in the day when it was Blogspot. It seemed like a cool idea at the time. For some reason, what I really grabbed hold of during my research were RSS feeds, and my very first blog was just a whole bunch of RSS feeds. I guess it made me feel like a secret agent or spy or something, like in the movies--the dude that sits down at his computer in the morning and receives the latest updates from headquarters. I'd always intended on taking clips from some and writing my two cents worth about them, like I was an important news journalist or CIA analyst--I'm really in to Tom Clancy's 'Jack Ryan' books, by the way--but the idea of publishing it on the scary world wide web was too intimidating for me. I was a hardcore secret agent at heart, albeit a shy one. So, longer story less long, my first blog died out. I'd forgotten all about it until recently when we started thinking about starting our family blog. By the time I thought to check it again, Google had acquired blogspot (now Blogger) and my old blog was no more.
And so, our friends, welcome to our family blog. I hope it goes better than my first one, and with fewer RSS feeds. I think our current subtitle says it best, we'll post whatever we have time for. Please leave us comments and keep in touch. We look forward to checking out your blogs too, so please send us your links.
-Josh
4 hours ago