Jim Crow Laws

These laws are an example of the embarrassing but very true history of America. These laws, nowadays, disgust me, however I realize at the time they were the social norm.  People of this time period had a legitimate fear (disgust) of the black race. It is truly sad the way our ancestors treated blacks during this time period.

late...

And please forgive me for being a minute late... As you will soon realize (if you haven't already) is that I am the definition of procrastination.

Other stories... and mine?

I didn't realize until after I started reading this collection of essays that they are stories of different writers and there adventures learning to read and write. This is a coincidence because, as you know, I have an essay I have to write about my experiences learning to write and read... hmmm.. now that i think about it probably not a coincidence... 

The first thing that I noticed was that almost all of these authors first memories were about writing, not reading... which is what mine is. The second thing I noticed was that a couple of the stories were very traumatic or depressing which is also different than mine. and the last thing I noticed was that in almost all of these stories the author mentioned some sort of inner gut feeling that they wanted to be a writer, and in one case made up their mind to be a writer because he was so bad at math (and he needed math to become his second career of choice, an architect).

When I reflect on my self and my memories of writing I do not share any of these characteristics. This does not mean however that I consider my self a failure at writing and think that I will never be able to put out a decent piece of literature. This just means that i will have to work harder than some other natural born writers to create a well written essay.

Why I write...

I have never really thought about why I write... and I have never really just sat down to just write... It's never really interested me.  But now that i have time to think about this I start to realize that i do write more than I think. I write a facebook update every couple of days, or during the packers game three times in two and a half hours. Every once in a while when something exciting of fun happens to me I will send out a tweet. So now that I realize I do write fairly often I start to think why I write. Why do I update my facebook account three times during the Packers game on Thursday? Or why do I tweet when I am about to get onto the plain heading to China? And I realize I write because I want to share the things in my life that define me. I want to yell to the world that I am an avid Packers fan. I want to to tell everyone that I love traveling and visiting new places. That is why I write.

helloo

Hi. I am Eric. This is my blog.