Is there anything in life more pleasant than an afternoon nap?

Well, yes, I suppose there are a few things, some of which aren’t really appropriate for a family audience, but assuming that I’m not going to get a booty call from Kate Winslet anytime soon and Publisher’s Clearing House didn’t just park their van around the corner, I ask again … is there anything more pleasant than an afternoon nap?

There’s a delicious sense of guilty pleasure in taking time that I could be using for something important, something productive, and spending it instead drifting off to sleep with the soporific tones of NPR wafting me away to unconsciousness. After all, I could be writing the next great American novel, or working out, or volunteering in a soup kitchen, or learning to become a sushi maven … but instead I’m asleep. And I’m OK with that.

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I have the most eclectic taste in books, and I’m fortunate to be working in a bookstore where I can exercise my interests without the need for a second mortgage. In college I studied literature … serious, challenging, meaningful literature … so as a result I rarely if ever read serious fiction any more.

Most of my serious reading is confined to current affairs and religion, and I’m particularly interested in the stories of real people’s encounters with those two areas. One book I read recently, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down was a great example of the sort of non-fiction I enjoy. It’s about a Hmong family in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota who have a child who is epileptic.

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Every blog has to start somewhere, and this is where I’m starting my one. So, there.

My name’s Greg, as must be obvious from the blog address, and I have never tried writing a blog before. Not sure yet what I’ll be writing about … probably the same sort of brain-numbing inanities that so many bloggers come up with, but with my own unique style.

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