The Big Blue Mess

I am Beth or the Big Blue Mess or just a mess of any color depending on the day.  I am also  a Texan, which is a random fact, but years of indoctrination within the Texas educational system (yes, despite what you’ve heard, there actually is one – where we learnt countin’ and word stuff) force me to list this as part of my identity.  I also think there’s a clause on my birth certificate.

The Big Blue Mess started as a group effort on Blogger involving several friends holding my hand encouraging me to write more.  Blame them.  They also say things like “you’re funny!” Like I said – blame them.

The name came from my ex-husband who used the term to kindly describe one of my beautiful artistic attempts in blue.   Bless his little heart, we’ll miss his critiques.

But the name does fairly accurately describe most creative things I do – they’re sometimes over-the-top, unpolished and can always stand improvement.  That’s my writing and The Big Blue Mess in a nutshell.

I’d like to think this is by and large a humorous site documenting my day-to-day (or sometimes month-to-month) shenanigans.

A big thanks to all my friends who helped make this happen – who let me pick their brains, who held my hand, and who stroked my ego enough to make me think this was a good idea (see aforementioned blaming of them).