I started writing about “My Back” Yard because a) I’m obsessed with squirrels and b) I’d like to become a better writer.

I never really looked at squirrels until my former Japanese teacher visited me. Kawaii! How cute, she said when she spotted them grazing on the Boston Common. Yeah, I had to agree.

But my obsession didn’t creep up on me until my husband started feeding them in our back yard. I’ll write more about that later.

In the meantime, I read that observing something — anything — closely is a good way for a writer to build her skills. So here I am blogging.

I started My Back Yard blog at Yahoo 360, but its limitations drove me crazy. Most annoying is that people have to become — and log in as — members of Yahoo 360 before they can comment. hence my move to Blogsome.

I chose Blogsome over other free blogging software because it offers categories. I’d like to experiment with categorizing my posts.