When Mah Jongg Class Discovers Less Dana

I don’t usually tell my students about my blog. They have had enough of me after nine hours of class. But when a student announces to the class that they found my blog that is when the questions come.

I tell them that it’s called “less Dana” and then apologize that it is way more Dana than anyone bargained for. I explain that I have been writing it for almost 14 years every night before I go to bed. I don’t proof read, or edit, I just post because I just don’t have time to do something that is blog worthy and write a worthy blog. So I just write and post and it is what it is.

I am a horrible speller and I often use the wrong word. No one is reading this for quality writing. But I do try to add levity to the world, point out absurd shit, call out bad people, encourage kindness, share good recipes, explain complicated things in simple ways, share beauty and laugh at myself.

I am asked all the time, if I do things just so I would have something to blog about. NO. I literally forget I even have a blog sometimes, until I get into bed and then I think, “Oh crap. I have to write a blog. What happened today?”

I don’t write about everything I do, sometimes I have a big day and I don’t write about any of it, because it might be off the record. I might write about the most mundane thing or a big international situation. When you write a daily blog they aren’t all going to be that interesting.

Since my evening class was interested in my blog I took a photo of them and told them they would be in the blog. So here they are. My beginner class at CCC for February. They all graduated tonight. No one failed Mah Jongg. They were a wonderful class. Thanks for giving me something to write about.