It’s been a very long time. Welcome to the new site.
As most anyone reading this knows, my wife and I have been running Love & Blunder over at Blogger for quite a while. If you know that much, you also know that it had been a while since I’d posted much of anything on the ol’ blog; something I regret.
Hence, the website you’re looking at now. This is the new Love & Blunder. I’ve had a longing to get back into blogging–though my motives may be a bit different than they were just over two years ago when I began–and starting a new site was just what I needed to get me excited about the prospect of writing again.
We’ll probably keep the Blogger site around for a while. Neither of us want to abandon it, and Devona thinks she’ll still post over there every now and then. But look forward to seeing lots more of us over here.
Let me know what you think of the new design, too. I think I’m happy with it, but I’m still deciding. Comments are much appreciated.
Talk to you all soon.
I like it, though the text is a little on the small side for my taste. Don’t forget our little journal we’re going to produce with Ben!
By the way, don’t you think Wendell Berry would shame you for blogging at all, not to mention for using his quote on the top? Just kidding, sort of.
By the way, the last line should read “talk to YA’LL soon” — come on, Rob. You edited a newspaper and you couldn’t catch that obvious typo?
I haven’t forgotten about our journal. I needed to get the creative juices flowing, and so far this has helped. Something about the old blog was a bit smothering. Now that the ball is rolling here, I think I’ll have some momentum for some other projects.
And Berry would give me a break on this one. After all, he’s spent the last 30 years writing essays for readers who are completely detached from his particular Kentucky-farmer context. His publishers just have to kill a whole lot of trees to make it happen. I merely click an innocent-looking button marked “Publish”.
I’m glad the viscosity is gradually being combatted from where you sit.
Just before I read your defense of Berry, I was musing on the irony of a book I was reading in the library all about the pitfalls—and even the inherent “empire ethos” toward domination and mastery—that characterizes the modern statistical and scientific modes of organizing data. (The author, on a side note, used a really really neat coinage to describe this ideologically-pregnant outlook as “panopticism”. What a juicy word.) This book, of course, was card catalogued and embedded in an immensely sophistocated dewey-decimal system.
*grin*
I like it!
Go where ye may… just PLEASE don’t delete your blogger archives. Your blogged experiences are the best guide to Christian parenting I’ve ever seen. And I plan on reading through it all again someday when I’m about to face similar situations.
Wow, thanks Chris. I’m going to have to go deflate my head now. ;) I’m just kidding. But seriously, that means a lot to me. Mostly because I know we don’t deserve it, but I’ll take it.
Hey Rob… just wanted to say I really like your site design. I’m inspired to actually make a design for my vanilla WordPress version over break.
Also, you might think about using the import option in WordPress to import all of your old Blogger post into your site. I have used that process for some of my friends sites and it works great.