Greetings, hello, welcome! If you've found your way here, you must be lost....No, really, you have inadvertently or kindly landed at my small attempt to enter the sphere of blogdom. I am glad to have you here. 

Until now, I have resisted the temptation to join the blogosphere (I am a slow adopter bordering on Luddite). Somehow, I am compelled to join the fray. I'll probably get lost in the shuffle of the ever-cluttered world of bloggers, but at least I can count on my mother to read me faithfully. Thank heavens for family.

Why blog? My aim is to shed some additional light on the sporting world, particularly events I cover, as well as other topical issues that get me fired up or stick in my craw. If I can make it interesting and informative, all the better. My goal is to be as objective and fair as possible, but since this is a blog, I will take more liberty in expressing my opinion or printing rumor (that I will identify as such). For instance, since I will be covering the Australian Open for the next couple of weeks, that will be the topic du jour for most of January.

How often will I post? My goal is to file something at least twice a week, sometimes more, sometimes less. We'll see how that goes. I am not ready to turn over my life to blogging or risk my health to continuously feed the maw. I can't promise that slivers of my personal life won't infiltrate at times, but the purpose is to inform about what I am seeing, hearing or writing about, not to let readers know how many poops my dog took in the park that day. Those of you out there, you know what I mean.

The uncensored, unedited, unfact-checked nature of this enterprise is a little daunting. Hopefully I won't make a fool of myself (which is always a possibility). Those of you unfamiliar with my work can read a selection of my reportage on my website at www.douglasrobson.com.

I guess it's official: I am now a blogger.