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My blogging has changed quite a few times in the last year or so. I haven’t really looked over my posts and analyzed when, how and why. I just know it. The most glaring change is the fact that I barely blog on this blog anymore. I mean, seriously, November 1? Come ON! I can hear you guys saying that to yourself … “what the hell is she DOING why she won’t update her blog?! dammit!”

Well, the issue is complex and compounded…

• I stopped liking how my blog looked simply because I had started working on fyrfli.org and found a theme that works so well for me – gives me everything I need and then some. Except, how lame is it that ALL my wordpress installations will look the same? Maybe not lame at all – maybe this is what I need to realize. It’s not about how it looks, but what I say. Maybe instead of worrying about how it looks, I need to think about actually SAYING something … and saying FAR more regularly than I have been.
• I’ve been working on fyrfli.org a LOT. It’s supposed to be my public face, the face that the world sees and reads because it is far more useful to the world than this place which is simply a personal glimpse of ME. But then, I stop and wonder whether personal glimpses aren’t what I am attempting to “sell” to the world. Isn’t the ME what I want to put out there for people to read, see, understand and maybe glean some helpful hints and strategies for their own life?
• I’ve rediscovered my writing muse … somehow, I really deep down want to be a writer. And I’ve been separating that aspect of the ME from this place – this place that is supposedly personal glimpses and updates of my life … yet, as with the former point, aren’t my personal glimpses what I want to write about? Who cares whether my style will change from post to post, whether today it’ll be an account of yesterday’s adventures, or just a trip down memory lane or in fact a hodgepodge of ramblings and musings of a mind too active to sleep? Isn’t that who I am anyway?
• I like to experiment – and all the different instances of Wordpress that I have installed are really just me wanting to experiment and play with the technology. That I can’t change, won’t ever want to change.
• Every single post I write on this place gets posted automatically to Facebook. On the surface, this doesn’t seem to be an issue – does it? Well as much as I love Facebook and what it’s done for me being away from home, there are just some posts I’d rather NOT make it onto Facebook. And here’s the thing with that: I KNOW there is a tool somewhere that I can use to filter that out. Why not stop it altogether? Well simply because there are some people who say to me privately that they enjoy reading my posts – so I wouldn’t want to deprive them of that enjoyment. But there are just some things that I would rather keep quiet.

All that said, I think it’s time for me to find a way to merge all the different instances of “ME” and filter the different parts of ME into their respective venues using the technology I so love.

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