One evening over a year ago, with no forethought that I recall, I sat down and started writing this blog. Some friends were already blogging and I loved reading their posts. But though I had always enjoyed writing and had taken some writing workshops over the years (and even had a stack of unpublished letters-to-editors in my desk), I never had the ambition or the sitzfleisch to pursue a writing life. Yet that evening the blog title “World Thru Brown Eyes” came to me...