(Just Like) Starting Over

What am I doing here? Well, after spending over two years on Yahoo 360, I would have been perfectly happy to keep my blog there. But that site has begun to resemble a post-apocalyptic ruin. Unsupported, glitch-ridden, and nearly abandoned… it’s time to move.

This is an opportunity to get back to basics. I started this process to write… and write I have. Along with that came the benefits and pitfalls of a social networking site – those who have nothing more to offer than posting pretty pictures with a cut and paste multi-colored text taken from someone else. Drama and treachery from the seamier side of the virtual world… But it has been balanced by some great writers and amazing connections to the point of even finding my life partner in the process… part of why it is so hard to abandon the old dying horse. So while I am not quite ready to shoot it, I can no longer deal with the inability to post a blog or a comment without hitting glitches.

I imagine that being used to a social networking site, this may be a bit of a lonely experience. However, I am looking forward to writing for writing’s sake… not as a response or reaction to what is going on around me in a social networking world. I like to believe that I don’t write to an audience, but let’s be real… if we weren’t writing to an audience (known or unknown) why would we post blogs?

I considered other social networking sites like Multiply (for about 5 seconds) and Ning (forced social networking… I don’t think so)… nothing seemed to fit. When my Yahoo mail started getting glitchy on me, I said “Basta!” Enough is enough… I switched to gmail, changed my home page to Google, and found Blogger. So… why not?

I really enjoy connecting to people through writing – even if I don’t always know it is actually happening. I tend to share on the brink of TMI, then write something completely cryptic, and then often throw in humor when it is least appropriate. Don’t worry if you don’t see any of that here yet… there isn’t any.

So, hello Blogger world. It is time to start over and see where this path leads.

That’s what I am doing here.