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AnniversaryPost3: What's next?

It's now been about 18 months since I quit my job and about 1 year since I started this blog. The blog served many purposes (in order of importance):
  1. To journal my transition from professional working woman to this strange and wondrous creature called the "stay-at-home-mom"
  2. To test whether I had any writing skills (creative and technical)
  3. To share my thoughts with family, friends and finally with Jane Q. Public. (Writing has always been easier for me than talking.)
I look back and realize that I do have ideas (of questionable value of course), but I am unsure I can contribute further on the process of adjusting to the stay-at-home life. I mean, just how many more posts can I make about self-esteem issues and my quest for a "band of sisters"? So I am faced with some options:
  • I can shut this blog down and start a new one where I share the ongoing intrigue, danger and high-stakes of parenting or
  • I could re-work this blog and convert it to a parenting/life blog
But what do I do about chronicling my active interest in writing? Folks who may be interested in parenting issues may not at all be interested in my wannabe-writer's life. In case you missed it, writing would be my "2nd career" or "reinventing myself".

Bottom line, I'll probably make some changes, but I haven't decided what form they will take yet. I hope all you readers will stick with me.

(Virtual) hugs and kisses to everyone who has continued to read this blog and comment!
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Unknown said…
Well writing about parenting seems better than writing about wanting to write. I would encourage you to continue one way or the other. And send something to RD.
2 October 2009 at 15:45
Austin Trini said…
Kev, Good point! Good point!lol Thanks for your comment on the quality of what I write (RD indeed!)
2 October 2009 at 18:07
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