A Few Words of Welcome to the Glynn Literary Zone

You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. . .oops, that’s Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone. This is the Glynn Literary Zone.

It is customary for a blogger to have a few words of introduction.

So, call me Joe.

I am not a politician, a Fortune 500 executive, a superstar athlete, or even one of those reality show celebrities. Instead, I am one of those schmoes you see in the grocery stores and Walmarts. I work at an ordinary job, live in an ordinary neighborhood, and for the most part eat ordinary foods.

Ever since my high school English teacher praised my lachrymose essay on my tricycle, I have a passion for writing. I know writing can be as much fun as spending an hour on a rack in the middle of a Mojave Desert heat wave, but I just can’t stop tinkering with words and sentences.

Although I know blogging is considered to be passe, I am a huge fan of the blogosphere. Whenever I discover an intriguing blog, I get that “Wow!” factor that I almost never get reading Twitter and Facebook or watching Tik Tok videos. I am astounded there are so many unsung great writers producing so many great blogs on a variety of topics. They make internet surfing so much more fun than watching surfing movies.

I intend this blog to be more serious and more insightful than my other blog, The Cub Writers Cubbyhole. I will take a subject that interests me and expound on it.

Be assured I won’t write about subjects like calculus (mathematics is totally Greek to me), Sumerian philosophy (I don’t know an Aristotle from a Plato), or the best recipes for quiches (I don’t have a cook book, and my idea of fine dining is a McDonald’s Happy Meal). I hope the subjects I will about will interest you as much as it interests me.

I know that not everyone will agree with my opinions. But they are my gut opinions. Sometimes like gut feelings, gut opinions are the right ones. Often, they are false as unpleasant gas pains. Nevertheless, I will strive to mean what I say and say what I mean like Dr. Seuss’ Horton.

Welcome to the zone! I hope it will become something like the Twilight Zone–a land of “both shadow and substance, of things and ideas”.

Weird Fact

In the Glynn Literary Zone, I will have a weird fact. Today’s fact is the composer of the score for the premiere episode of The Twilight Zone was Bernard Herrmann, who also composed the scores for Citizen Kane, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, and Taxi Driver.