I’ve been catching up on who you are

About a year after moving to my next city, I’m moving to my next blog–in which I hope to have some conversations out loud, whether that means I’m starting them or just piping up to say me too, me either, or huh, hadn’t thought about it that way.

While I haven’t been writing, I’ve been reading. SOS, I think about your phonecall to Holophane often and I promise I’m going to read Julie Klausner, TBQ, as soon as her book comes in at the library. I’m looking to Seacoast of Bohemia for how to live like a scholar and become a thoughtful teacher (nice blog theme, btw), and I wanted to give The Ethical Exhibitionist a high five for posting stuff to Scribd and making me realize I wasn’t the only one thinking about what it means to have an audience in the year 2010. I’m thrilled for Wide Lawns and her (growing) family!

The main reason why I haven’t been writing is that I’ve been thinking, and while I did that, I got a little older and a little less…emo, for lack of a more accurate characterization (and thanks to LCB for that one), and a little closer to being ready to use my own name. At first, I thought I didn’t miss writing in this format. Over the past few months, as I’ve tried to sort through the roles of writing in my daily life, I’ve realized that the writing I did in the blog world didn’t waste energy I should have been using to write other things, it just allowed me to write and think about different things. And I realized I definitely miss being part of conversation in this format.

So, here’s to talking again, if only to myself for the time being.