Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Epiphanies...

In the last couple of days I have had many epiphanies concerning various aspects of my life, and thought I need to blog this, make note of it, tell someone, do something with these insights I found... and yet I did nothing. So now I sit trying to recall ANY of these and I am failing miserably. I am hoping I have learned my lessons and will take the 2 seconds to jot down something I want to say next time inspiration hits. I hope I keep a pen and paper closer on hand, and can write something down, at least enough to jog my memory a little. So until that time when I will once again be graced with a clear thought, and the time to follow up with it I offer this advice, take a second to jot down your thoughts and ideas, before they leave as quickly as they came...

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Blog addicted...

At one point I had 7 different blogs...

A blog with my family pictures and events...
A blog for my creative writing...
A blog for my academic writing notes...
A blog to publicly post my goals in hopes of actually accomplishing them...
A blog for letters to never be seen (I write letters to people I am mad at and delete them, great anger management)...
A blog that was my "grief journal" when I lost my husband...
and this one, A blog for my creative endeavors...

I have deleted my blog for letters to not be seen, there is a reason you delete them, so you no longer hold that anger, and keeping them on record, even if just for my eyes, only rekindled that anger each time I opened it.

I am going to lose my academic blog, and just merge it with my creative writing one... I like writing, but the only reason for academic is for teachers, not myself.

I am going to keep my family one with pictures around, but make certain it remains private. that if for my family to see, not the whole world. I am open with enough of my life, my children need to be private... Kris preferred it that way.

So that brings me to the point of this post. I have had many compliments on my writing, suggesting I do more with it, pursue it somehow. I have found a few online blogs that pay for writing, I have even found a few published journals to submit to. But I have found it harder and harder to decide "where" to write my thoughts, my widow blog where I am much more open? But lately it has turned into more of a life blog including dating and other aspects. My goals have not amounted to much at all... usually just another place to vent. And let's face it in the past year while I miss being crafty, raising 4 kids alone, and working, and going to school, and trying to fit in a date here and there has been more than tricky. However, I like the "title" of this blog the most, and feel it encompasses all my passions, reading, writing, crafty, my random thoughts on life, goals, tips I happen to pick up along the way... so here is my plan. I am cutting my blog life to 3 blogs. My private family one, my school and creative writing, and this. My place for creativity, my place for thoughts on life, my goals... I am also going to subscribe to ads on this one because then I can perhaps make something of it eventually. I will keep my other blogs up... but more for my own eyes. But please pass along this blogs for others to see, and I hope to be able to add it more frequently without having to decided which blog to write on.