Welcome to my blog! What is the Pedestrian Saga? I caught blog fever in 2003 and started reading up on the art of blogging, but my significant other, known in this forum as urbanlocust, beat me to it. He named his blog so spontaneously (and prohibits me from revealing its origin here!) but how would I christen mine? To complement his entomological name and to show that we are family, what about some variation of katiedid? Cute, spontaneous and, I’m afraid, not very unique that’s already been claimed by a dozen blog personalities and commercial enterprises by now. And so the fussing and over-thinking began. I found myself studying the scientific names for katydid insects, searching for some key to my blogging identity. How fascinating: the saga pedo katydid is matriarchal, carnivorous, and it moved to Michigan all the way from Italy in clumps of dirt clinging to farm equipment! I have some things in common with her! (?) My saga is (from Old Norse) part long, heroic narrative, and (from Latin) part wise woman. (That s the optimistic, self-confident bit.) It is pedestrian because, let s face it, weblogs and KatieDids are commonplace these days, and mine is nothing special. Besides, I do like to go around on foot as much as possible.
I hope you enjoy my blog and check back often.