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Friends have long suggested that I "get myself a blog." I am a noted navel-gazer and meanderer, but will strive here for economy and wit. Haha. Frankly, I've been itching to join the ranks of the blog-havers for a while now, but have refrained. Partly because I'm not sure if I have much of a story to tell that others would want to read, and I already have several other options for writing into the void. The other part of why I have refrained is because certain family members of mine are pro-privacy and anti-blog - to the point in fact, that when the first Blogs were spawned on the Internets back in the day when it was powered by hamsters running on wheels, these certain family members of mine (who I love dearly) said some very negative things about the practice of blogging that sort of stuck in my head to the point that I'm still not sure how comfortable I am being entirely open in this very public forum. However, as certain other Wise People In My Life have known to say: nothing ventured, nothing gained. And I need practice writing for an audience, a creative outlet, and a way to stay in touch with friends that allows me to communicate more than two sentences at a time. Hence this venture.

Oh, and speaking of sentences, the title of this blog is derived from a Maximo Park song "The Coast is Always Changing," which was the third song to pop up on my iPod when I shuffled it in search of some good lyrics to turn into a title. It resonated with my goal of using this space for good (economical, eloquent) writing as opposed to scribbling, but it has other, weightier connotations for me as well.