Why blog?

I've been thinking a lot about this lately.  People blog for so many different reasons:  

• To make money.
• For fame.
• To show off, pride.
• For family history.
• To keep in touch with family and friends.
• Just for the fun of it.
• Because they like to write.
• To send messages to friends, family, or posterity.

So, the real question is, why do I blog?  The answer is complex for me.  I blog because it relieves me of my guilt for not journaling and scrapbooking.  I blog because I want my family and friends to get to know me and my family.  I want my posterity to know me as a person.  

I blog because I am a writer at heart.  I am always composing essays in my head.  Weird, I know.  Entries come from experiences I want to share, ideas I want to communicate, and achievements or people I want to herald.  Once in a great while I will write something in hopes that a particular someone will read it.  But mostly, I blog for myself.  Add in a dash of I want my extended family to know me and my gang.  And a heaping spoonful of family history and you've got me.

Why do you blog?