Then they were born. Woooo-boy. And girl. And then another girl, 22 months later (surprise), who we call Bean [FN1]. As you can imagine, my blogging consistency fell off a cliff! Which was definitely partly due to having three children under the age of two, but it was also the byproduct of a lot of CHANGES that overtook all of us at the time - in between my twins’ birth in 2015 and my youngest’s birth in 2017, we became very divided, and fought amongst ourselves nonstop online (we still do, though some of us have had the presence of mind to disengage). Facebook, Twitter (may it rest in peace) and Instagram started becoming microblogs of sorts, which meant that I was sharing my experiences in blurbs with people all day long in real time, instead of thinking about them on a larger scale and writing about them here.

And then I accidentally lost {here}.

In 2018 or 2019, I moved my blog to a new domain manager and web host, and that was all well and good. Better, in fact, because the interface for editing my blog was easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy. Except those lovely people (a lovely him, in the UK) decided he was tire of website hosting and shut down his business. In the meantime, I had gone from full-time work to part-time work to not working at all, which was extended by a little pandemmy, and then I slowly eased myself back into work once the kiddos could resume preschool/start elementary school. And that was great for a bit, but as the nature of my employer’s work changed, there was less and less for me and other folks working there to do. So the company shrank, my hours shrank, and eventually, last spring, I found myself with no hours. I decided to do a little training, resign from that position formally, and start my own thing.

No, it’s not this blog. Nor is it YouTube (if we had to live on my creative writing earnings, we’d be very, very poor). I did try YouTube a few times while I was home more regularly, but as much as I love watching content, I’m struggling to CREATE it there. That was never the case for me with blogging, but I haven’t given up on YouTube entirely - it’s just a little quite now and since I’m resurrecting this thing, perhaps I’ll start vlogging again, too. YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT CAN HAPPEN.

So I’m starting from scratch. I’m in the blog-equivalent of “you’ve lost everything. What would you do if you had to start from scratch?” I may have a lot of the oldest content before I transferred web hosts the first time, but have probably lost everything in the intervening period, which is a bummer, but which is OK. There’s very little there that doesn’t live rent-free in my head, and I still have all the photos. Somewhere.

So that’s where we are. This may be a little spare to begin with, but I’ll do my best to populate it as I am able and called to do so, and if I can figure out how to share archived entries, I may do so selectively, on an “Archives” page.

I live in the Midwest, was born in the Plains, spent a bunch of time in New England and Old England, have traveled extensively throughout Western Europe, as well as to Canada, throughout the US, to Mexico, the Caribbean, the West Indies, and Australia; I am in my mid-40s with three sprogs, and am married to a guy we’ll call Bo [FN2], and I really enjoy writing (blogs, novel sprints, notes - anything, really). If you’re interested in hanging out, I love comments, love interacting, and love to connect with people over shared interests. So let’s connect!