Welcome

Welcome to Touch the Alien Sand.

I’ve wanted to blog.  I’ve started and given up on blogs before even getting a post out. Reasons? Probably too many to count.  I didn’t feel I had much to say – no, scratch that. I had a LOT to say, but that naggy inner critic told me no one would be interested. I have ideas, I have opinions, I have stories and I plan on expressing them all here somehow.

The title of this blog, and the quote below it, are from the first episode of Doctor Who (1963), to me the greatest TV series in the history of ever. I’ll refer to the show and definitely be writing about it (but not exclusively). For context, the Doctor is asking Ian Chesterton (played by William Russell) what it would take to convince him that the Doctor is indeed an alien and his police box shaped TARDIS a spaceship. I chose that image because it is what this experience is going to be for me – alien sand. I can touch it, hold it, but it will still be amazing to me that it even exists. That sense of wonder, which at 43years old I’m rediscovering, is what I hope to get across here.

I’m a husband, a father, son and brother. I have friends, and acquaintances, some of whom “get me”, some don’t. I’m a Doctor Who fan, I have clinical depression, and I’m crazy about my wife and my kids. All in all, I’m human. Thanks to my glorious medication I understand that being imperfect doesn’t make me wrong or broken, and now I trust myself enough to express myself in a public forum.

I don’t know what to expect, but I’m just going to try.Thanks for reading this intro, and for watching the strange birds wheel above us with me.