My First Post

I guess that everyone has a first time or a first day for everything that happens in life. This is my first attempt at a blog. I am thinking of the movie Julie and Julia - I think that is the title - where the young author attempts to recreate a year's worth of Julia Child's recipes. The young author is not a chef, but she used a blog as her medium of communication to a world that might be interested. What I like most about the movie was watching her blog and react to the responses.
Setting up this blog was certainly not a difficult process. I did have to work to get a url that was not used and to find a title. I don't think that is a great barrier. I think that the success of a blog is the consistency with which the author posts or the reader reads. I do not read many blogs. There is a bicycle racer who blogs everyday about his training rides and how fast and how many miles etc. I read that daily, but I do not at this point read a professional blog. I have found this process to be easy and the post fun. Will I do this on a daily basis??? A few years ago when I was training to race a half ironman triathlon, I wrote in a journal what I had done to train each day. I could have used this forum and I tried to find something easy. I was not diligent enough to find a blog spot. Now I can. I like the ease of setting this up and maybe this is a place, other than Facebook, where I can communicate with family.
I suppose I should comment on something in education. First, our school is hiring a new IMC specialist. What a change that job - the librarian - has undergone. I am excited to see what the candidates see as the future of a library. Diane and I begin interviewing next week.
Second, now that spring is herre in the midwest, we are starting to see the attitudes of the middle schoolers changing, and keeping them focused and positive about learning is a challenge. The student attitudes ends up affecting the attitudes of the staff. The teachers feel bad when the kids don't care. How do I keep the staff's morale high? How do I convince them that what they're doing is right and that the kids will get it soon?