Welcome to November! In honor of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) – I’m going to try to work on a few writing projects. No, none of them are an actual novel – but I just want to get in the spirit of getting back to writing. After all, they say that a habit is formed after 21 times, right? So if I write a little bit every day this month maybe I’ll get back in to the habit of writing again. <\/p>\n
I’ve felt bad about this blog – averting my gaze when it would come up on my computer while I focused my attention on other websites I work on. Kind of like that friend in high school that you would hang out with if no one else was around. (I was that “other friend” so I know where of I speak.)<\/p>\n
When I first started this blog, it was cathartic – helping me work through my feelings about being back on the dating scene in my 40s. When a dating interaction went bad, I turned that frown upside down by using it as material for my blogs. <\/p>\n
Then I found love, and not wanting to over-expose it (especially since I thought I had found love before and was wrong) I hesitated to write too much about it. So I stopped sharing with my blog and just focused on my new relationship. <\/p>\n
I tried to change my blog – talking about cooking, and TV shows, and other things. Reality? Not as appealing, and therefore it too trailed off to the nothingness. <\/p>\n
So now what? Well, we try again. Being honest, talking about my life, lessons I’m learning, things I find funny. I’m not going to go back and try to catch up – let’s just draw our line in the sand and say, “here. this is where we start. With a little bit each day for the next 30 or so days. And then – let’s go from there.”<\/p>\n
Ready? Let’s do this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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