… since Rob moved us here. This blog doesn’t yet feel like home for me. I guess I’d grown attached to the old one. I can’t find anything worth saying. I think that it is because Rob is blogging again, and I find him such a better writer than I am. He writes so formally, and I am more prone to the ramblings of stream of consciousness.
He’s just a more organized thinker than I am in all ways. I thrive (and get smothered if I’m not careful) in chaos, Rob enjoys reading books like Getting Things Done- The Art of Stress-free Productivity. So, I guess I’m afraid that my ramblings will mess up his vision for the blog.
We’ve been married for only about 9 or 10 months longer than we’ve had Love and Blunder. So when we first started out I wasn’t exactly as aquainted with the man with whom I was blogging. When we got overwhelmed with life as parents and we both started blogging less, I was the only one who was ever really able to sit down and get a thought out. Love and Blunder sort of became my personal sanity. I’d exercise all of my quazi-religious thoughts about parenthood while I waited for Rob to have something to write and time to sit down and write it. That got really comfortable. And now here we are, blogging together again.
I’m going to try to get back in to the swing of things. I’m going to try and trust that I will have something worth marring Rob’s intentional thoughts with. And I will try to blog about more topics. (I am now trying to type one handed, since Elise is upset and has the hiccups).
One thing that impresses me about my favorite bloggers (not just the people I enjoy reading, but more the people I aspire to write like) is their ability to write about any topic they have interest in with a streamlined continuity. One day it’s politics, the next flower aranging. Yet it all has the same voice.
So this post has been my introduction to the new blog. It’s part confession, part mission statement. And it’s nothing at all similar to something Rob would write, but I should get over it and realise that no one is expecting that anyway.
When did I begin to take blogging so seriously?
Cool website, Rob.
I would give the same sentiments, Devona. Erica’s the writer and talker of our family; whereas I’m just a pain in the …
Is there a way of immediately identifying the writer, i.e., is it Rob, Devona, Olivia or Elise?
You did all this on your Mac, right? I wish I could spend time to make something like this. Did you use a program?
Swede:
I used WordPress as the framework, and made modifications to the “Hemingway” template.
I need to add some code in order to have it display the author… I’ll probably get around to it in the next few weeks.
If you’re interested in switching to a WordPress blog, you can get one for free. Just check out http://wordpress.com. It’s a more robust platform than blogger, and the engine is entirely open source which allows for more freedom in modification. I like it quite a bit.