I miss writing this blog. Things have been busy. I draft posts in my head but nothing has gotten onto the virtual page. I’ve meant to blog some recent happenings: a nice win at work, my beloved bike commute that is about to change, getting a heat pump, plants I’m growing. I hope I still will.
I stopped using my last regular social media outlet. Mastodon was a nice improvement on Twitter but it was still sucking up my attention. That leaves me without a place to write and share shorter posts. Maybe I can get comfortable blogging faster and more briefly.
On the plus side, I have been back in the groove of working on my novel manuscript. I am more than halfway through line editing and made a pact with a friend to finish this edit by June 23rd (somewhat arbitrary, but I need a deadline). Perhaps when that’s done I’ll write more here.
Here’s a micro-update: I am enamored with Silphium terebinthinaceum, aka Prairie Dock. Gangly, deep-rooted, whimsical flowers, leaves so ugly they’re pretty. I thought about writing an ode to the plant but someone else already did the job nicely. My two Prairie Docks came back this spring and there’s a new one that might survive to join them. Around Ann Arbor there are some nice specimens in the YMCA’s wildflower garden and along the Stadium Blvd bridge, between the bridge and Graydon Park.
See you soon, I hope!
2 replies on “This thing is still on”
I find, for myself, that blogging tends to go in about a 2- or 3-year cycle: I’ll get very into it for a few months or a year, get good at making shorter, faster posts, then lose steam for a year or two.
I’ve more-or-less learned to accept that about myself. IMO, don’t stress yourself about it!
We’ll be here whenever you feel like writing here again.
Thanks, Chris. This sounds much like my activity patterns and it’s nice to hear someone articulate it. Maybe this little post will mark the start of an active cycle – time will tell!