Changes Coming for The Bailey Post

              

 The Bailey Post says Happy New Year to you and yours. The Bailey Post began in April of

2010 as a way of (me) facing impending retirement. People always said to me, you should write Will, when you get out of full time teaching. But I discovered early on I was NO story teller in the fiction sense. I am not entrenched in academia enough to write books or academic journals so I turned to the one thing I could write and that was social commentary, observations, character sketches, and satire.

            I think I have developed my own style, my "voice". Having said that, just because someone develops a voice it doesn’t mean anyone wants to hear that voice.  I have made people laugh, get angry, get furious, cancel their membership in the Will Club, and on occasion I have gotten people to contribute to the Post. The Bailey Post used one of the most basic blog platforms available without much gloss or glitter. The equivalent of publishing on the backs of grocery sacks and envelopes. It didn't get much improved (except the writing) over the years. So 163 published posts and 4 ½ years later it’s time for changes I am pleased to announce the birth of the New Bailey Post. The New Bailey Post  will have improved style, color, readability and interest. It will make a concentrated effort to add readers and more contributors.

               The New Bailey Post will enable you to subscribe to the post and when you do, new posts will be sent to you automatically. It will have links to twitter, Facebook, the web, dribble, slobber, upchuck, puke and other social media sites. It will have photos that I hope will be submitted by (you) the readers, and I will retain a soothsayer, palm reader, psychic, and astrologer on staff to satisfy “all your throw your money away” needs.  Since I am back teaching full time (what possessed me to do that?) (Oh yeah, boredom) I can’t write as many blogs but until the day I put down the chalk and eraser for the final time; I will endeavor to write a blog about every three weeks. 

               So, my friends and loyal readers it's also time to refresh my readership list.  Let me know if you want off the mailing list for the New Bailey Post. We will still be friends. No one is required to stay on the mailing list. This is not a Prison Blog. I would like to get each of you to think about contributing one article for the post sometime this next year. You don’t have to be Ernest Hemingway to contribute to this blog and by the way trust me Ernest Hemingway will NOT be contributing to the blog. 

Keep your eyes open for the  first edition of the New Bailey Post.

PS:         On a personal note, I am still battling a 3+ week upper respiratory virus, my son Austin got married to his sweetheart on Dec. 29^th, (pictures soon)and I made Merry (not Mary) over Christmas.  I finished a grueling (for me) full semester teaching and enjoyed most of it. I’ll teach three classes again this spring. Two at Lehman College and one at College of Staten Island. Austin finished his first semester of PhD studies and Rebecca successfully taught 3 college classes.