Jebus, have I been busy! I’ve been interviewing for a new job, have been writing a lot and have been volunteering my time helping with some web sites and online communities. And I’ve been feeling really great about all of these things!
Today I’m at my friend Kate’s house and we’re both sitting on the couch writing on our respective laptops as some Harry Potter movie plays in the background. Kate’s an amazingly talented writer and we do some great work when we can get together and bounce ideas off each other.
I’ve been doing some creative blogging elsewhere and have decided to shut down that blog and move the posts I’ve written there over the last few months here to this blog. The topics on that blog are technology, design and health issues. I’ve found that these things are near and dear to my heart and I’m looking forward to incorporating them here, both the old posts, and writing new ones. I’ve always had a bit of a problem defining what this blog should be; I’ve found it hard to figure out which parts of my personality and interests to blog about here, since this site’s domain name is my real name and I’ve had this weird sort of pressure to “be my own brand,” if that makes any sense.
As I’ve become more of a writer and have started to meet and build relationships with other writers and bloggers, I’ve been impressed at the way many of them just write from their hearts simply because they are writers, artists, creative people. I’m going to do that more here. I still work to write things that are appropriate and work-safe, here, but I’m going to be doing more off-the-cuff entries, more diverse topics and, well, just more writing.
So here we go on this next phase! Oh and I’m going to maintain the date stamps of the entries that I’m moving here to this blog (with a similar explanation posted near the first one).