I’ve been needing to find a different direction for my public writing, which has faltered and nearly petered out altogether, as you may have noticed. The place I am in currently is a very different place from where I was sixteen or so years ago when I started blogging. In fact, the whole world is a different place, and people don’t really read blogs anymore.
At that time I was quite literally breathing and eating for my children as I gestated one after the other of them. They were artless and cute; it was hilarity to take notes on our days. I processed the unbelievable events you couldn’t make up by writing about them and finding the thread of humor. It kept me sane and cheerful, and my children love reading those stories. They like getting a front row seat in the plays I wrote about their own memories.
There is a big however. I have a household full of young adults now and they are still hilarious and cute to me, but if I were to write about them in the same ways I used to, they would have a few things to say about privacy. I respect them too much to splash their stories all over the internet, hence I find myself often unable to write what I know best, which is my everyday life.
I pay a fee every year to keep this domain name, and I have considered folding up the blog once and for all because it isn’t worth the $ to keep it online when I am posting about once a month. Not only that, but the Wocket in my Pocket theme does not feel as relevant as it used to when the kids were little.
With this in mind, I have decided to start writing on Substack. I do not intend to have paid subscriptions at this point. It is free and uncomplicated. They say it will be easier than maintaining a WordPress site once I am used to the new ways of doing things. Eventually I hope to export these archives over to that page, but I haven’t figured out how to do it yet.
I am starting out this Sub-stack page with childhood memories, mining for the gold in the earthy strata of living. You can read my first post here.
One thing that is nice is that it has a very easy subscriber button for you to receive emails. The comments section is simple as well, and I do hope there are fewer ads. Come on over and say hi. 🙂
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