Both definitions seem to fit my insatiable want to start a blog.  Perhaps guests will read something that will pick them up in the midst of darkness, or bring them back to reality when everything seems minuscule, [...]]]> Pale: (noun)  An area within which one is privileged or protected.  (adjective)  Deficient in color or intensity of color.

Both definitions seem to fit my insatiable want to start a blog.  Perhaps guests will read something that will pick them up in the midst of darkness, or bring them back to reality when everything seems minuscule, or pop their balloon when they need to put their feet back on terra firma.  Or perhaps you need to see something obscured by the fence in your life that keeps you protected.

What Pale Side of Life is:  Anything I want.  It’s the most taken-for-granted freedom we Americans enjoy.  At any given moment this blog could be big, small, shallow, deep, colorful, drab, upsetting, enlightening, dark or bright.  A single post can be any of these to different people.

What Pale Side of Life is not:  Not much.  Though it will never be my intention to offend, some will be.  Again, it’s a free country.  I have just as much right to offend as you have to be offended.  Will I purposefully offend? No.  Can I control you perceptions? Um, no.