Ed Grisamore

I officially entered the blogosphere at 5:57 a.m. on the morning of June 19, 2006. The sun hadn’t even lifted its head off the pillow, and I was already a published blogger.

It was the day after Father’s Day. Appropriately enough, I wrote about being a father. I paid tribute to my own dad.

Little did I know it would be our last Father’s Day together. He died five months later.

For the next year, I was a blogging fool. Sometimes I wrote every day, seven days a week. I eventually cut back to five..

All this time, I was still turning out four newspaper columns a week, too. So I laced up my writing shoes every few hours.

In the end, the final headcount was 265 blogs. I wrote about everything from snoring dogs to peach ice cream, high school reunions, lawn mowers, highway misadventures, lightning bugs, log trucks, duct tape, blood drives, naps, Elvis, fortune cookies, cherry blossoms, cures for the hiccups and pot likker etiquette.

There were so many slices of life along the way I couldn’t chew with my mouth closed. I observed Ty Cobb’s false teeth in a museum in Royston. I fried an egg in the Telegraph parking lot on a hot summer day. I reminisced about flying forks in the wee hours at the Waffle House. I surrendered my closely guarded recipe for True Gris Brunswick Stew. And I absolutely had to write about my son, Grant, coming back from renewing his driver’s license. His new card listed him at 6-foot-3, 500 pounds.

I semi-retired from the blogging life on June 15, 2007. By that time, I had taken on several other writing projects, including a new book. I had to make room on my plate.

In time, though, I actually started to miss the blog. I had plenty of other things to write about, but I found the blog to be a daily exercise that made me a better writer.

My eyes were always on the prowl for something to write about. It required me to look, think and react to every potential subject.

It was fun. I missed it.

And so I’m back – writing by candlelight — in the blog cabin.

The web site www.grisamore.com has a new look and continues to be a work in progress. I promise to be here every day, sometimes more than once if the mood strikes me. I will also leave my words on FaceBook and Twitter.

Feel free to climb aboard and follow me around. There are plenty of places to go and people to see.

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