Taking the Blog in New Directions

Several months ago I came across the blog of an older, UU gentleman that had the exact same template as my own. It was disconcerting. I can only imagine it must be like meeting someone who has the exact same name as you, but I’ve never experienced that either. In any case, I felt uncomfortable and decided at that moment that I would switch to a template customized for me.

This became a bigger project than I’d anticipated. Quickly, my plan became to have three blogs - one for film, art and cultural event reviews; one for Never Say Never to Your Traveling Self, and one chronicling my single, city-girl attempts at becoming a homemaker. I followed this path for a while, and ultimately came to the conclusion that it would be easier for me to have just one blog that included all of the above. Would my film reviews really be so separate from my spiritual life? Unlikely. And besides, I’d only confuse myself. I’m attempting to simplify my life right now, so it didn’t make sense to have three blogs where one could do as well. My main concern had been that straying too far from spiritual discussion would alienate my handful of readers, but after checking up on what my most popular posts have been, I no longer think this will be an issue.

So … after my transition to a new host (likely to be DreamHost), I’ll be posting on a wider variety of topics. I still want to approach everything I post here from a spiritual perspective, because that is also how I desire to live my life. One of the reasons I blog under my actual name is to keep myself accountable for everything I say here. I can’t guarantee my opinions will never change, but whatever I put down in this blog will be true to me at the time I post it.

Comments

3 Responses to “Taking the Blog in New Directions”

The Emerson Avenger on December 1st, 2006 6:34 pm

So you ran into my friend The Beantown Bwana eh?
LaReinaCobre on December 2nd, 2006 2:15 am

No, it was someone else’s - but now that makes three blogs I’ve seen with the same template as mine!
joseph on December 3rd, 2006 9:04 am

homemaker??