The husband said "What?"

I heard a speaker once say that she blogs because if she didn’t the weight of her words would crush her husband! She said many more and wonderful things that day, but for some reason that statement stuck with me (anyone who knows me is saying to themselves right now, “imagine that!”) I am a full time wife/mom/educator/character coach/social calendar coordinator/...and often more. I have chosen those things with delight and commitment. I am beginning to realize that as those things blend and collide, so do my thoughts - most remaining twisted wreckage until the days end.

I don’t delude myself into thinking that others are interested in my daily musings but I have come to believe that if I can assemble these ideas somewhere tangible, I might be able to unload the burden of a “complete thought,” without crushing anyone else in the process.

In the spirit of an invented parable - which proposes the word budget for women is two times that of their male counterpart - I named this blog “30000 Words.”

A joke to highlight my point:

A husband looking through the paper came upon a study that said women use more words than men. Excited to prove to his wife that he had been right all along when he accused her of talking too much, he showed her the study results. It read "Men use about 15,000 words per day, but women use 30,000".

The wife thought for a while, then finally she said to her husband "It's because we have to repeat everything we say."

The husband said "What?"