Tannishblog

My daughter is becoming quite the bloggster. For the past few months, she and I have been discovering the Joy of Blogging ™ together. As I struggle with the usual middle-class issues and wrestle out of my day a few cogent moments in which to attempt to write, she struggles with a daunting workload of homework, activities and still manages to write creatively.

She started last spring with Brianna’s World, then after several revisions, branched out to a general interest blog entitled Shades of Pink. Two web site cannot contain her ideas, it weems, so she expanded further for her Library. Not content with that, she has envisioned a creative writing blog called Lucid Waking, and her best friend coerced her into sharing a Xanga site: Urban Legend, just for kicks.

While all this seems a bit scattered it’s understandably a by-product of a child’s method of investigation. All of these consist of a larger work-in-progress, which will enable her to find her unique voice. While she rapidly leaves her childhood behind, her work will develop into a coherency I can only dream of.

It’s daunting to imagine what these highschoolers can do when you let them. Coming as I have from the Children-Are-Seen-And-Not-Heard school of childrearing, I am constantly amazed by my daughter’s generation. And I am proud that the fates have chosen me to be her papa.