A Blog About Blogging

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*Me*

I launched this blog on September 16, 2018, which seems both like yesterday and a decade ago. Time is such a squishy thing, and I used to roll my eyes at all the prickly adults who told me, “time only goes faster the older you get.” Now I’m one of those prickly adults who has to look back and realize that the younger me was quite the pretentious brat.

I was reading through my blogs the other day, cringing at some things I wrote and surprised by others. I had some fear around launching this blog because I wasn’t sure how anyone would receive it, and it’s so much easier to critique content than it is to create it. But I’m happy I overcame that fear, because writing this blog has taught me so much: discipline, what interests people, how to tell more compelling stories, how to articulate my thoughts, how to reflect, how to admit that I was wrong. Most of all though, reading through my blogs has shown me how much I’ve grown and changed: through recovery, through relationships, through jobs, and moves, and races. Life feels full when I look back and exciting when I look ahead. I hope your life feels that way too, despite (or maybe because of) all the hardships and heartache.

I was reading through my posts because I’m working (slowly) on a book, and I realized something sort of cool, which is that books are fixed…