First Blog Post Ever

    Dear Readers,
  I feel the title explains why this entry will be so poorly written- this is my very first blog post ever. Yay!!! Pop the corks on the champagne bottles (or Welch's Sparkling Grape Juice in my case, as I'm not legal yet) and prepare to read what I hope is not the blandest thing ever! Please excuse the letter format, I just feel more comfortable with it. As though I'm writing a letter to a pen pal instead of an article on the internet that tons of people could see. I don't know if it makes sense to you, but I hope it does. So, let's get started, shall we?
     My name is Dee M. Nichol, and I am nineteen years old. I started this blog in hopes of writing daily, if not weekly, about my life. I used to write in those bound composition books every day- poems, diary entries, doodles, short stories, essays- stuff like that. For some reason after I graduated high school, I just stopped. I don't know why, and after almost two years of being out of school, I'm ready to hop back on the horse and give it another go.
      I'm from Leeton, Missouri- an antique little farm town with a population of  almost seven hundred people. That may not seem like much, and believe me- it's not. Because of how small the town is, there are no secrets anywhere. Everyone knows everything about everyone. Open and for the most part, a really nice place to live. I lived there until my first year of high school, and then we moved two hours north to a larger, yet equally quaint farming town called New Franklin. Why is it "New" Franklin, you might (not) be thinking? Well, I'll tell you!
  Originally, there was Franklin, Missouri. Booming with trade and farming in the 1820's, the town was built on a river bed- low level ground right next to the Missouri River. The flood of 1827 demolished Franklin, sending it's residents packing to build on higher ground. Hence why "New " Franklin is so "New". Hahaha.
 I thought that was clever...I guess I should stop now.

Apologies that the post was so short, but thank you so much for reading to this point! I promise to do better in the future. Have a splendid day, dears!
Sincerely,
D