And Introducing...

One of my goals this summer was to start a blog...so here it goes!

My first post is to introduce myself and my vision, if you will, for this blog. Ultimately, I would like to get rich and famous as a witty writer activist! However, my realistic idea for this blog is to provide myself a platform to become a part of the conversations society is or should be having.

First, let me say hello and provide a window into the author's character. I'm a goddess with a diva closet and mindset. Just kidding, I'm actually a big nerd poet that enjoys travel, protests, and snowboarding. My lifestyle tends to tranverse between traditional and counterculture. It depends whose looking. My background has been diverse from video production to tolerance education coordinator and many things inbetween. Politics played a large role in my upbringing and I'm glad it did. I vote with my brain and my heart, which does not make me ignorant or foolish.

Progressive Plaid will be a blog to celebrate and question the intersections within us as individuals and the connections between people. Topics will range, but generally focus on the social, political, cultural and other ubiquitous issues in the world.

The name is actually fairly easy to breakdown. Progressive because the views expressed here will usually be considered as such. Now, Plaid is used for a couple of reasons. One is that I do enjoy sporting plaid from time to time, but it certainly is not an exclusive pattern in my closet. (oops! I don't have a closet in my glorified studio apartment) Thinking more theoretically, the reason for plaid is for the way it incorporates lines, squares, and colors that intersect, merge and diversify to make something unique and often beautiful. Kind of like humanity.

Please feel free to leave any respectful comment you'd like because I enjoy dialogue and learning from others.

Thank you for visiting my site and I hope you'll come again!