On Being a Bit Player on a Larger Stage

“At no point have I ever been able successfully to keep a diary … on those few occasions when I have dutifully tried to record a day’s events, boredom has so overcome me that the results are mysterious at best.” – Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

This is what it feels like to write BDP. My story exposed leaving me stripped bare.

Lately, I have been spending a lot of time trying to determine exactly what it is I’m trying to accomplish here at BDP. I even went out of my way to “disappear”...