This poor, wee blog needs a good dusting off and also a deep clean and maybe a foot massage. She just ain’t what she used to be.
Last week I somehow stumbled across the archaic archives from my original blog from, like, 2005 and was just floored by how much I wrote back then. The words just poured out of me, into this crazy online world and I, word by word, found my voice, then had a bunch of kids, spent too much time on the computer, went to a blogging conference that kind of turned me off of blogging altogether, then went back to work and just kind of lost the drive to write here regularly. I have been so thankful for my gig at UrbanMoms, being drawn to post twice a week, otherwise I might have stopped blogging altogether.
I am still trying to navigate this brave new world and most days find that my need to share pictures of my kids and of my random French braid or my messy pantry can be achieved via Instagram and Facebook, so things are quiet here.
I am not the same girl who wrote that first post eight years ago; I have grown and changed and faltered and struggled and risen up and then fallen down all over again. I am so glad I have those old archives to peruse, to remember the feelings I felt, the dreams I dreamed and the bad photos I took.
I think that I have about three readers left these days. And one of them is my mom. (She’s great.)
If you’re reading this now, thanks. For coming back even though I’m not sure what I’m doing here.
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Still reading… though through facebook links as my blog reader is long gone :(
You were with me at that blogging conference, and I had no idea it turned you off of blogging. Maybe we need to re-institute our weekly lunches?
Use this space for you, Manda Paige. The stuff you post on FB and Instagram are great, but you don’t own them.
This is a space where you can tell your stories and archive them and print them and OWN them.
Do it. :)
Still reading after all these years! :) love your humour and wit!
I blew my blog up (again) for similar reasons. And I totally, 100% get the blog conference thing. But that being said, I do love your writing. :)
I will always be a reader and one of your biggest fans. (And like Angella, I had no idea BlogHer turned you off. Truly, meeting you was one of my favorite parts of the whole thing.)
Still reading and enjoying your updates on life with three daughters. Fun to see how others manage mommyhood :)
I’m still lurking around! Though my blog has bit the dust. I don’t think I ever found my voice in this forever forever land, in fact maybe I lost my voice and my mind and any great ideas that I thought I had (it’s so hard to feel unique in a cyber world of crazy talented seemingly perfect in every way writers) is that what put you off re:blogging? Or was it the crazy frantic turning of the earth and the valuable time ticking that caused you to fix your attention on reality for this nanosecond of a life? Maybe both? I’m glad you’re still here though. Even though I got lost, I find myself for a moment or two in your descriptions of your busy, kid filled, struggle-&-emerge-stronger days. Keep tapping whenever you are able. I’ll still be here, trying to find myself.
I’m still reading! It’s been years! My blog is on a hiatus, I just can’t find the emotional energy right now, I hope to go back to it at some point. Xx
I am still reading! It’s always a true delight to read your posts. :)
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