Why this, why now?
Why'd I suddenly decide to abandon my previous blog, Editions of Me , that I'd been keeping for well over a decade? Have you ever woken up one day and felt like it's time for a change? Well, I didn't just wake up one day feeling this way, but I had been contemplating it for a while. I was 26 when I started blogging in earnest, and as you can imagine, I was a completely different person at 26 than I am now at 40. The blog I started at 26 carries a lot of my past, and at this point, I want to leave it behind. I want to stop looking back at my life and regretfully pondering What-ifs and If-onlys. I want to gaze fiercely forward. What's going to be different about this blog? Not too much--I will still talk about my life. But I'm going to try to just let it be . I tried to take all sorts of different directions with my previous blog, which led to me trying to start branch-off blogs that were more specific, which led to me just feeling really overwhelmed and exhauste...