everything that's on my mind

Version 2.0

It’s interesting, this blogging thing. I thought I’d left it for good, but I can’t quite seem to shake it.

I first decided to create a blog in the fall of 2003. I posted a single post that said little except for a promise that there would be more to come. Turns out that was my lone post for a year and a half. Then, in early 2005, a second post finally appeared. It was as brief as the first and made the same promise: there will be more. But after lying dormant for a good six months, the promise of more to come appeared to have been, yet again, an empty one.

Finally, in August of 2005, I posted again. We had just moved back to Little Rock from north Alabama, and I decided to write briefly about our transition back home. And from there, indeed, more came. I kept it up for three and a half years, posting several times a week on a variety of topics such as church/religion, family, music, books, movies, television, politics, current events, and sports – especially college basketball. I enjoyed it for a long time, but it gradually began to feel like a burden. I felt that I needed to post something pretty regularly or else let it go.

And so, earlier this year, I decided that I would, in fact, let it go. I was done. I no longer had the desire or the time to continue. I’d said what I had to say, and it was time to move on. My intention was for it to be permanent.

However, despite declaring that my blogging days had ended, I still felt pretty confident that eventually the desire to do it again would return. I must admit, however, that I didn’t expect it to return so soon. I’ve thought more about it lately than I have at any time since February, and it is clear that the urge still remains, and seems to have been growing a little stronger each month. I’ve resisted thus far, but finally decided to give it a go once again. Perhaps now that I’ve had a six month break, I can start anew and occasionally say something interesting, and therefore, my hope is that there will again be more to come.

But just to be on the safe side, I’m not going to make any promises.

-gf