It seems apt to start this blog with a word I've seen a lot more often over the last year than ever before. After all, Pelagic Publishing agreed to publish my first book! But outside of that context, here's what it means:

Pelagic
- Relating to the open sea.

And here's a wonderful (and worderful) book that devotes its middle section to life in the open sea:
Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

Because of this book, I will be eternally mesmerised by plankton.