A quick introduction

Dear reader,

I bet you're thinking 'yet another blog'.  I am, and I'm writing it.  Can you imagine a novelist having that reaction every time s/he writes a new book? With the age of the Internet long underway and the blogosphere practically an empire, it should be no surprise that more and more blogs are being created.  It occurs to me, right now in fact, that every person using the Internet should write a blog and keep it as their voice on the World Wide Web.

This is my voice on the Web waves.  Here me roar.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.  

Anyone who knows me will agree with the following: I have a loud voice and I'm not afraid to use it, I'm blunt, I can talk endlessly, and I'm opinionated.  What might not be obvious is that I'm honest, scarily so at times, and certainly what is known as 'honest to a fault'.  Why? Well, do you enjoy being lied to? How about having to cover your ass when you're lying? Or trying to talk your way out of the area reserved for scum when someone catches you out in a lie? No, I don't enjoy any of that either, which is why I do my best to be truthful all the time.

Besides making the effort to be honest, I do my best to mean what I say and do, which brings us to the quality of sincerity.  I approach all spheres of my life as sincerely as I can and always try to see things as they are as opposed to as they seem.

Finally, I believe in being myself at all times.  I spent most of my childhood attempting to please others to fit in, with results on all degrees of the Total Failure to Complete Success spectrum.  Eventually I learnt that I wasn't comfortable being someone else's idea of me; I wanted, and needed, to be myself, which is what I have been aiming for every day since the realisation hit my little 14 year old brain with the effect of a heat-seeking missile - and 12 years later I'm going strong.  This is the main reason I embrace and encourage my nickname 'Macs' - it is far more me than 'Marie Claire' ever has been or ever will be.

And so we come full circle to the point behind my blog: I write from myself to the outside world, and whatever I choose to write about will inevitably be expressed with all the sincerity I possess.

Happy reading, and by the way... Hi!

Sincerely, 

Macs