To blog, or not to blog? That was the first question, and the answer was yes. The second question was what to call my blog. After a 2-day brain dump of every play on words I could think of \u00e2\u20ac\u201c write turn, write now, write or wrong\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6ad nausea, my publicist jokingly said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153DevraDoWrite.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d We laughed it off, but it began to grow on me. I find the imperative tone appealing – DevraDoWrite! – a daily reminder to commit thoughts to prose. But the real appeal for me may have been the nostalgia factor, hearkening back to a cartoon from my childhood. My peers all remember Dudley Do-Right by name, but while the light bulb goes on immediately, it illuminates little in terms of detail. Collective recall includes \u00e2\u20ac\u0153yeah, he had a prominent chin, rather pointy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153he was the dork who saved people,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t he sound the bugle?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dudley Do-Right, the feckless Canadian Mountie, his unattainable love interest Nell, and his nemesis Snidely Whiplash, were all the brainchildren of Jay Ward, along with Bullwinkle and Rocky, Boris and Natasha, George of the Jungle, and others. My activities and musings are not likely to provide the melodrama of a bumbling hero untying distressed damsels from railroad tracks in the nick of time, but hopefully you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll find something of interest and come back for more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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