This website is an attempt to provide a medium of communication for my family and close friends. I keep wanting some way, other than email, for us to share thoughts with one another. I say other than email because of a few reasons. First, I myself am a terrible emailer, as just about anyone reading this can attest to. Second, a blog like this allows for a different way of communicating, sort of a “here it is, take it if you want but if you don’t feel like responding that’s OK” kind of way. Third, I see friends of mine using blogs successfully and keep thinking “My family is full of tech savvy folks, we can do that, too!”

So this is a start. This site isn’t complete by any means. The plan is to make the site such that all of us can post messages. We’re all adults (as the youngest I can confirm this) and we’re all living different lives. Some of us talk frequently, some hardly at all. No need to pretend any differently. Anybody can post, anybody can response. One thing leads to another…

I’m having some issues with the software making this thing work, however, at a technical and philosophical level. But I’m working through the issues, never fear. In the end I’ll post instructions on how you can make posts. For now you’ll be limited to making comments to things I’ve posted (if you want something posted in the mean time, I can post it for you).

Finally, I’ve designed this site to my personal tastes. You could have your very own blog, however, if you desired. It’s pretty easy for me to set up, it would just run on this website, say msqr.us/socalmagoffins or msqr.us/canadianmagoffins or msqr.us/ncmagoffins or msqr.us/notmagoffinsanymore or msqr.us/neverwasamagoffin. You could even put a picture of your favorite plant or animal on there, it’s entirely up to you.

Or you can just use this blog, of which you may be wondering a few things: what is “m^2”? What is “msqr.us”? What is that background image? Perhaps those questions are enough to engage you in your conclusions, in the form of a comment? Click on “Comments” to continue…