My first literary comment

I am reading Maria Barbal's novel "Emma" these days, written in Catalan. It deals with a woman who has 'sunk' from a normal, middle-class life into homelessness. But she has kept a functioning mind for most of the time. On a notepad that she found abandoned together with a pen she writes her story from a first person perspective. It is really fascinating; and her entries into the paper notebook could also be blog entries - if only she had a notebook and wireless 3G access wherever she went...

My first entry

So this is where I will pour out my soul to who-knows-who in the endless spheres of the world wide web.

I hope to write about me and the place where I live and to comment on contemporary events, such as past Saturday's heavy storm and subsequent power failure that left our village in the dark for nearly 12 hours but made for a fantastic evening sky.

It is past midnight so I really should be going to bed, otherwise my little daughter's enthusiastic cry for her father and her milk in the early morning will get me to a bad start.