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  • Writing
    • Disability
    • Making History
    • Digital Humanities
      • dayofDH
    • Canoeing
    • Creative Nonfiction & Essays
    • Feminism
    • Bibliographies
      • Pacific Worlds Bibliography
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      • Mentions/Links
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make me smile…
deep thoughts

make me smile…

written by Jana April 17, 2012

Heather’s post about her changes in blogging since her marital separation got me thinking about how my blog has changed over the past couple of years.  That, and the recent attention that my Mother Work post* garnered from various media outlets made me remember a time when a lot of what I wrote here was meaningful and interesting and widely-linked.

A huge change in my blogging practice is due to working full-time.  Gone are the times when I could devote an entire morning to composing a blogpost.  Added to that, is the fact that I’m not getting as personal anymore–for so many reasons.  And, I’m working so much in ‘auto-pilot’ mode most of the time, that I’m not sure that I even have many deep thoughts to share anymore.

So, instead, I post random bits of poetry and some photos, my travelogues, and the music that’s driving my day.  Because they make me smile and that happiness seems worth sharing with you.

These days I feel more like a magpie who’s pulling at random bits of string and shiny things to feather her nest, than I do a writer with something important to say.

*That Mother Work post was the product of a two-hour middle-of-the-night writing jag when I just couldn’t sleep.  Those nights are few and far-between now that my alarm is ringing at 6am.

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Hi there friend, and welcome to my blog. I started writing on the internet two decades ago. Since then I've started and finished a PhD program, left the Mormon church and became a Quaker, got divorced, remarried, found full-time work in academia, took up rock climbing and outrigger canoeing, and traveled across the globe (China! Belgium! Italy! Chicago! Montana! Portland! Gettysburg! and oh-so-many points in-between). This blog is eclectic and random--it has poetry and cooking and books. And cats. And flowers. And the ocean (my ocean). But in that sense it's a good reflection of me and my wide-ranging, far-reaching, magpie curiosity.

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