About the blog.

There was a gray light on the lake and when he heard the loon he knew exactly what it was, he even knew what it would look like, listening to the raucous idiot voice, thinking how man alone of all creatures deliberately atrophies his natural senses and that only at the expense of others; how the four-legged animal gains all its information through smelling and seeing and hearing and distrusts all else while the two-legged one believes only what it reads. 

The Wild Palms [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem], William Faulkner

(In New York with my mommy, December 2007)

My name is Jordan and at twenty-three years of age I am in the midst of the oh-so-stressful career search, which will eventually land me teaching secondary English classes, yet where remains to be seen.  I’ve been reading and writing through my spare time for all of my life.

This blog has existed for years, and the blogging world has been kind to me.  Being among the youngest of the bloggers I began this blog rather aggressively– moreso than necessary.  The other bloggers have been very kind to me and it is in reading their blogs that I’ve discovered how important it is that I’m reading and writing so young.

So welcome to the young’un’s point of view.  I am green, I am inexperienced, I am… **gulp** naive (though you will never hear me say that again).  I’m still processing the required reading from high school.  I am in the world of balancing a formal literary education with the “real” one I now impose on myself.

I dare say I am extremely important to the literary blogosphere.  I am still learning, but much of what I am learning you, my literary blogging friends, are teaching me.  Let the excitement commence!