Wednesday, December 1

"So what are you planning?"

I normally sit back and study a situation (AKA lurk) and after a while , I feel some level of competence or confidence, I jump in with both feet. Well....that's what I'm about to do. Jump in that is. I plan on commenting on news stories, events and personal happenings.

And where did the title come from? Back in HS days, I was dating the editor of another HS's newspaper. She commented to me at the time that she needed a column to fill out the op-ed page and couldn't find anyone with which she was happy to do the column. I suggested that I could do it because she had commented she liked my writing. She said I couldn't do it because I didn't attend her school. Duh. Why not an anonymous column by me, letting me write about anything that struck my fancy and call it ...mmmm, Petty Wit & Wisdom? I did the column the entire school year and my girlfriend/editor kept the secret. I even won an award from the faculty advisor that was never picked up. Somewhere in the bowels of North Ft. Myers High....