Can't We Just Dip In A Toe First?

I started thinking about doing a blog about a year ago - as a way to write regularly, journal my constant search for meaning in life, and most importantly, reach out to my daughter who lives 400 miles south and my mother who lives 600+ miles north.

Melonie, my son-in-law, and 3 munchkins are visiting this weekend and she and I were up at 5 a.m., drinking coffee and getting caught up with one another's lives. She said she had an idea for a book. I said, "What about doing a blog?" She said, "You've been talking about that for a year, Mom." To which I replied, "But I'd like to do it with you."

At this point, I would have made another cup of coffee and contemplated longer...maybe 6 more months. Not Melonie. She's a doer, that girl! She said, "Okay. Let's do it." By 7 a.m., she had it up and running! Meanwhile, I made breakfast, offered a comment about the color, drank more coffee, offered a thought about the font, and simultaneously thought, "Really, can't we start slower? Maybe dip in a toe first?"

So about the name: Plain Great Women. She asked me, "What do you want to call our blog?" After much silence, then brainstorming, then more silence, we settled on Plain Great Women because

• we both live in the Great Plains - me in Nebraska; her in Kansas.
• we're plain speakers - in other words, we don't mince words and are unfortunately, not known for our tact. People generally know where they stand with us; and reason #3:
  
• I think she's plainly great!
  

There's one more reason for the name. We're hoping we can get my mother to join in - so we'd have 3 generations sharing ideas, asking questions, giving advice...three wise women! And, like us, my mother lives in the Great Plains, plainly speaks her mind, and is a fabulously great woman! Let's see if we can keep those toes dipping!