I don’t remember how I came to do it, the same way I don’t remember so many things I’ve acquiesced to that felt so new and important to me then and strike me as vaguely (or more than vaguely) embarrassing now, years later. In 2005, during my final year at a large state university in South Carolina primarily known (if it is known) for its sports teams, and occasionally referred to (if it is referred to) as a “cow college,” I started a blog. It was on the platform called Blogspot, and I called it