I started this blog back in 2011, which is a bit hard for me to believe, was 15 years ago or so. My real reason for doing this was to practice writing, and to regain the writing discipline to sit down to write something, and to start typing right away. The truth is, my time as a staff writer had ended long before, as I moved into management where the writing happened in a more rational way than “Hey, the Big Guy wants language for such and such yesterday.”

Over that time, you lose the knack of switching your thinking process on a dime and putting content on paper instantly. Oh, yes, and you start to develop bad writing habits, too.

It should be obvious to anyone who regularly visits this site that those bad habits still need a great deal of work.

All of this chit chat is really leading up to my reason for writing this morning, which is to introduce a new series of posts that will begin Monday at 6am EST. You see, I’ve thought about writing a series on the Poetic Books of the Old Testament for years, but I haven’t gone beyond Ecclesiastes, which I’ve done a couple of times, and Song of Songs, which I’ve also done a couple of times. Just to be clear, the Poetic Books are Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs (or Song of Solomon), and the Psalms- they are also called “Wisdom Literature”.

I did begin a series years ago on Proverbs, but I never finished it. It turned out to be the only series I’ve ever started and not finished; it isn’t as easy to blog through as I thought it was…

With that little bit of background, I will begin a series on Proverbs, which will be completed. After that, I’ll be left with Psalms and Job, both of which will be a challenge, although for completely different reasons. Psalms is huge, which makes it a challenge to hold an audience’s attention. Job is not a personal favorite and rather long, making it hard to hold my attention…

Sounds like great fun! We’ll get under way on Monday; see you then.