I have been thinking for the longest time about starting a blog but have been stuck on the objective and topic. What should I write about? Marketing, the transportation industry, politics (local, provincial, national & international) or the environment? Anything I eventually write about marketing or the transportation industry has a destination in the company blog (JAN Kelley Blog), and the others are very personal. Why would anybody care to read about my thoughts on those topics? Who knows...
So I decided to write for myself as a mental exercise, an effort to clarify my thoughts, no quixotic quest, no expectation of effecting change And if other people find my posts interesting enough to comment on and challenge me to drill down on them then all the better.
Now, what do I call the blog? Actually I’ve had the seed of the name for some time (talk about putting the cart before the horse!). For some reason the word “synapse” has been loitering around in my mind. “A synapse is the structure that permits a neuron to pass an electrical or chemical signal to another cell (Wikipedia def).” Bottom line, the rate of synapse activity reflects brain activity, something that I want to promote in myself, maybe because my grandmother died of Alzheimer.
But I can’t just call it “Synapse”, it has to imply activity, so do synapses, snap,crackle or pop? I don’t know, and I’m not going to research a lot of medical papers to find out so I’ll have to wing it. Psyches snap and knees pop and neither are attractive alternatives. On the other hand when I have the rare epiphany I get a crackling, static electricity like feeling.
So writing for “Crackling Synapses” will hopefully get mine going, and the frequency (and quality!) of the posts will reflect my brain activity levels. Let’s see where it leads.JAN Kelley Blog
So I decided to write for myself as a mental exercise, an effort to clarify my thoughts, no quixotic quest, no expectation of effecting change And if other people find my posts interesting enough to comment on and challenge me to drill down on them then all the better.
Now, what do I call the blog? Actually I’ve had the seed of the name for some time (talk about putting the cart before the horse!). For some reason the word “synapse” has been loitering around in my mind. “A synapse is the structure that permits a neuron to pass an electrical or chemical signal to another cell (Wikipedia def).” Bottom line, the rate of synapse activity reflects brain activity, something that I want to promote in myself, maybe because my grandmother died of Alzheimer.
But I can’t just call it “Synapse”, it has to imply activity, so do synapses, snap,crackle or pop? I don’t know, and I’m not going to research a lot of medical papers to find out so I’ll have to wing it. Psyches snap and knees pop and neither are attractive alternatives. On the other hand when I have the rare epiphany I get a crackling, static electricity like feeling.
So writing for “Crackling Synapses” will hopefully get mine going, and the frequency (and quality!) of the posts will reflect my brain activity levels. Let’s see where it leads.JAN Kelley Blog
