I discovered a reference to one of my other blogs the other day, which prompted me to look back. It's like reading an old diary: you turn another page ... and another, and you realise how different life was then, and then how imperceptibly life has changed, and there's no record of it. I found that in the case of both of my previous blogs, when I stopped posting, it was very definitely not the end. The first one was last posted to just over a year ago, and has had over 23,000 views since then. I was posting faithfully every week, but some times it was hard to think of something to write. There was a lot going on in life, but it was very 'samey', and often I would simply describe what my family history researches had unearthed.
The other blog was started about the same time, but I didn't post to it so often. About six years ago I changed to using Wordpress for it, but I never really did understand the program, and probably didn't get the best use out of it. I brought it back to Blogger, but it never really recovered from the move. And yet, that said, more than 12,000 people have looked at it in the last year, although nothing new has appeared there for over three years.
So, one has to ask, what is the point of starting another blog - my third - and what chance is there for this one to be a success? Nothing is certain, of course, but I feel my life has changed significantly in the last year and, bit by bit, those changes ought to show itself either in what I write about or how I write. I'm making no plans for regular posting to this one. I don't want to become 'trapped' in the way I felt I was before. When I feel there's something to say, I'll say it, and if that happens to fall into a weekly pattern, so be it. One of the many YouTube videos I watch is produced by someone who frequently uses the expression, 'It is what it is', meaning there is nothing he can do about a situation, so let's just accept it and move on. I'd like to be a bit more flexible like that.
Join me in the adventure, and see whether I can manage it.
