One of my favourite ways to "blog" is to first write a long email and send it to a friend or three. Sending an email gives a sense of "done", and gives pause to

One of my favourite ways to "blog" is to first write a long email and send it to a friend or three. Sending an email gives a sense of "done", and gives pause to consider one's thoughts. Then it usually becomes easy to decide whether I'm cool putting it up on the ol' blog too.