Red Dawn

This past Christmas morning, I looked at the red gloves and red scarf my mother had given me and the red lipstick I had bought a few days before, and the red cell phone case my Droid is wrapped in, and I thought how funny it was that I was surrounding myself with scarlet. I don't strike myself as a red person—if anything, I'm blue. But lately, the color has been popping up more and more in my life. Thinking about this made me wish, as strange as it sounds, that I deserved to wear the color. In my mind red people are dramatic, bold, fearless and passionate. I didn't really see myself that way, but I wanted to.

I decided at that moment that 2011 would be my "Red Year." I would make it my mission to let the fiery red in me come out. I mentioned this to my friend Lisa, and she suggested that I do one "Red" thing a week and report back to her. I decided to do one better and blog about my Red exploits.

Each week I'll do something Red and (depending on whether Lisa's approves it) post it here. I think this will mainly involve doing things that scare me...or at least make me nervous. I may fail a bunch, I may only manage to be Pink, but at least I will have tried to be bolder and that's very Red.