It's 12 a.m. and I'm hearing the skid of a train mixing with the wind.

It's not the first time I've been at Blogger.
Last year I stumbled upon it and filled my (now very dated) account with blogs about ambition and motivation and the things I thought I wanted to do with my life in the future. It's funny how I thought I had it all worked out.

I never thought that I was seconds away from having things, people mostly, move through my life like rain, changing things, changing me into someone new. I'm back now to the blogging world with a new account, hoping to find out what new adventures are waiting for me.

This blog is required for my Advanced Writing and Communications class but I'm hoping it will be a place for more than just posting assignments and trying to make the grade. If I have learned anything about writing is that it can't just be about academia. Not yet anyway. I hope that this "requirement" will present a new place for me to figure things out about myself, others I know and don't know, and how we are all connected in this crazy world.

I will be posting a review of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" within the next day. Thanks for reading and any (constructive) comments are always welcome.