Starting again
I tried to blog. I really did. But I didn’t like the way it looked and couldn’t spend time making it pretty. And then my laptop got stolen and it was really hard to keep posting, mostly because it’s hard to type at a desk with a two-year-old in your lap. But now I have a pretty new laptop, and a pretty new website thanks to Jon Leland and Combridges. So I am starting over.
Plus, after telling all my writing students over and over, “If you are writing today, published or not, you need to be blogging,” I’ve gotta do it myself. Especially when I see how great theirs are. (Check out Terry Harms’ blog on her wonderful just-published novel, Pearls My Mother Wore. Debbie Clay is inspiring me because she began the blog she’d long been meaning to write just after she got the really bad news of a breast cancer diagnosis. Read her funny and moving account here. Jessie Potter started her blog with her fourteen-year-old daughter about their upcoming trip to Italy. Margaux DeNador supports her blog with her Facebook page and does a great job. Kathleen Buckstaff had a really funny post about her first experience blogging. Read it here. )
I also have been ordered by Jon Leland that I can only have one blog with different subjects. I always thought I shouldn’t bore writers with stories of my adventures in mothering, or that self-employed people struggling with time don’t care about learning how to show up and write each week. But I’ve been learning that I just have to be me and tag everything I write and let you decide for yourself.
I think when it comes to blogging I’m more Baby Boomer than Gen Xer (or even God help us, Millenial). As you can see if you check out Jessie’s blog with her 14-year-old, there’s really a generational shift about the ease of putting yourself out there for all the world to see. I had always prided myself on being less a Boomer and more Gen X-y, but I find myself wanting to proof before posting. (By the way if you are interested in Generations, check out Lynne Lancaster’s new book The M Factor or When Generations Collide. I learn everything from working with clients.)
Jon also says I need to be posting pictures. I still have privacy concerns so you won’t be seeing the two-year-0ld but as soon as I figure out how to get the photos up here, I will be including them too.
Stay tuned!