Drivel

I'm kind of new to this blogging thing so I've been asking for feedback about my first entry - someone very close to me said "no one wants to read that drivel... at least wait til you've gone away before you start blogging!" Those words have been echoing in my head these last couple of days. They have caused no small amount of insecurity for me - a neophyte blogger. They also got me wondering about the origin and meaning of the word drivel.

One online definition is:

Noun:

1. saliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver

2. childish, silly, or meaningless talk or thinking; nonsense; twaddle

As I pondered this I wondered if my previous entry really qualified as a childish, mucoid excretion from the upper respiratory tract. I wasn't sure about the answer to that but I thought that I would write about my experience. I thought that maybe if I "got it out there" by blogging, healing could take place. I also realized as I started proofreading what I am now writing that it indeed might qualify under the above-mentioned definition.

As a result of this experience, I have decided to not drivel (drivel can be used as a verb as well as a noun) any more. At least not until I start my trip.......