An Introduction

Dear Readers,

This will be the first and last time I write a letter directly to you. I have just hit my 30th birthday, and as I reflect on this milestone (is life half over or do I still have 2/3 to go? or will next month be it?) I realize there are a lot of things I want to say to people that I can't or shouldn't. I also miss the lost art of writing a letter.

Letters are personal and don't always give the entire story. You have to read into them. You have to infer. You have to put yourself in the place of the sender and the recipient. And I want you to do that. So as I virtually send these letters to people, who very well may never get them, you can glean clues for yourselves.

This will not be a blog to bitch about the state of the world, though I will probably do that. This will not be a blog to praise or villify any certain corportations or governments, though I plan on doing that. Where possible, I will use real names (though only first names unless the person is in the public spotlight), and I will use some language that may not be PG-rated. I will also not limit myself to topics that are PG-rated. Consider youself forewarned and forearmed, and read in on my correspondence.

Joel