Where slightly above average content rests.

I know what you’re thinking. Oh my goodness, Bradley Parks, where have you been? I’ve missed your blog posts filled with interesting information and fun commentary. I’ve been loyally waiting on your return.

Okay, so you probably weren’t thinking those exact words, but I suspect it was something of a similar variety. So, why the long absence from the Web? I’ve been busy.

It’s a catch 22. I work a paid job to stay in school, which forces me to give up many journalistic opportunities – journalism being the reason I go to school. However, if I were to devote more time to journalism, that would necessitate devoting less time to my paid job, which keeps me in school. In comes the aforementioned catch 22.

The good news is that I have regrouped and regained the focus with which I came. I once again have the mentality that I can do anything and everything I set my mind while staring straight into the foreboding face of little sleep and a few bitter tears left on the desk.

That is the reason why I am embarking on a challenging voyage into the world of journalism. I may not have time to be part of countless organizations and their meetings, conferences, etc., but I always have time to be a journalist.

Like the old saying goes: news never takes a holiday. It’s my goal to produce something on this site every single day. Whether it be a written piece, a video, a podcast, a photo, anything, something will be posted on this site every day. No days off.

Many photographers take this challenge, to post a photo per day on their websites for one year. It’s a way for them to spend quality time with their craft and try to improve each day.

I’m bringing the 365-day photo challenge to journalism in the form of a 365-day writing, filming, journalisting challenge thingamajig. Each day’s post will bring something different. It could be a commentary on a news story, an opinion, random babbling or even the story of what happened in my day. Who knows? The only thing certain is that something will be posted.

The goal will never change. The goal is to be more involved with my craft even if it isn’t in a formal setting. I won’t be doing my typical job of suiting up (the pants, shirt, tie, jacket sort of suiting up) and hitting press row for a basketball game, but I’ll be involved, doing the journalist thing. Maybe people will read, maybe they won’t. Either way, I’ll be producing content.

For those who choose to tune in, I hope you laugh. I hope you cry. (I know I’ll be doing a lot of both.) I hope you gain something out of reading and watching what I have to give. At the very least, I hope you give me at least a few seconds of your time before flinging me at the window like a poor fly on a hot summer’s day.

Daunting? Yes. Challenging? Yes. Exciting? Yes, even more so. For me, I’ll take this time producing content as a means of rediscovering my passion buried in an ever-growing pile of school bills.

So here’s to journalism and here’s to rekindling the flame. Get ready for one heck of a ride.

Cheers,

–BP

This will serve as my first post. Look at this, my first day and I’m already cheating. To keep up with the journey, stay tuned to bplusblog.wordpress.com and my Twitter profile @Bradley_W_Parks.