Ponderings of a New Teacher

Why is it that I feel funny having people in my daily life read my blog but am fine with allowing thousands of perfect strangers read my inner thoughts? Okay, maybe I am over-estimating that thousands of people are reading my blog but please just entertain me for a moment. Am I the only one out there that feels this way? Can I get a “what-what?”

I know that I am, in fact, not the only one who feels this way due to a recent conversation with a fellow blogger. So, if we know that our friends, collegues, students are reading our blogs, do we (and by we I mean I) filter what I say in the hopes that I will not be judged as harshly for my insanity, sensitivity, or utter irrationality? In this vain, my goal is to be as true to myself in my writing as I can be no matter if my reader is an 80 year old, chain-smoking Frenchman with a love of edublogs, whom I’ve never met (Bonjour!) or my mother. Now can I get a “what-what?”