Starting over

After a short break, I have recreated my blog here. It is (I hope) anonymous. No one knows about this one except a few people. I had to shut down the old one because of a lack of anonymity. The wrong people could read it. I was too free with my information about who I was and where I was. Fortunately, no one from work ever found it, though some people made noises about looking for me.

Here is a place where I hope I can feel safe to say what I want and express myself without worrying (too much) about what other people think.

The original blog started two years ago. I didn’t know what a blog even was until I started my own. I didn’t know what it was all about. Here is what I learned:

There are some strange people out there.
There are some wonderful people out there.

I have elected to stay with the wonderful people. They cheer me, inspire me and let me know that I’m normal. And human—don’t forget human.

Do I want comments? Of course! I love comments. Some other bloggers know that I am a pretty faithful correspondent. Being relationship oriented anyway, it’s important to me to keep up with my cyber friends. So I try to check in regularly. Do I expect reciprocity? Sure. That’s always nice, but I know that others may not share my need for a relationship.

So this blog is called “Making a Life”. I fretted over what to call it, and what to call myself. The first blog went off in a completely different direction than I had originally planned, so this time I thought I’d think a little more about such a momentous thing as naming and building a blog. This meant answering questions like “Who am I really?” and what pithy statement could adequately capture me and what I am trying to do?

I chose and discarded several names before arriving at this one, once I realized that all I am trying to do is make a life: husband, father, grandfather, worker, church member, thinker, writer. All these roles rolled around in my head until I saw that they all go into…making a life.