For a long time I’ve debated whether to pick up blogging from where I left off (for about the dozenth time), or to trash all my old posts (about 12 years’ worth) and start fresh, or delete the whole darn thing and forget about it (in some ways the most appealing option for my “finisher” personality).
But last fall I had an experience that made me rethink whether anything I might do in this space is worth the time I take to do it. I was considering (for about the dozenth time) applying for an MFA program in creative writing. I’d stumbled across what seemed to be a good-fit program for me and I Googled to see what I could learn about it before I bothered putting an application portfolio together. I came across the blog of a writer who had gone through the program, and her couple of posts about her experience encouraged me that this might be the right thing for me, right now.
And that prompted me to think, maybe this is why it’s worth blogging. Because maybe somebody else out there will be randomly Googling looking for info or encouragement, and maybe I’ll have written something that will be truly useful.
So: I’m back. AND I trashed about a dozen years’ worth of posts, 200-and-some. I kept exactly four that still feel like they represent me: two sermons (one about stories and one about yarn), a knitting reflection, and a writing reflection.
I want to approach blogging in a much more focused way than I have in the past (so no rando brain-dumping) and I am committed to NOT spending hours (so no long searches for perfect gifs, no aggressively edited essays). I’ve reformatted and, blessedly, got rid of the awful ads. My intention is to use this space as a sort of behind-the-scenes glimpse of my MFA experience and to reflect on the Life life that dovetails with my writing life as I experiment and learn and figure it out, season by season.
Thanks for being here with me.
N.
a moving yarn: 