Blogging
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Making Memories
I’ve been following Laura Vanderkam’s Tranquility by Tuesday challenge. The past week has concentrated on rule #6: One big adventure, one little adventure. The idea is to counter the feeling of our days running together by adding a couple of novel experiences into our weeks. By adding “adventures,” instead of wondering where the time went, we have the hook of the novel experiences to remember our week. Although I really like this idea and want to implement it, it does take some effort … and I can be lazy about that. Apparently, though, our brains need novelty to prompt our attention to store memories and related retrieval cues. “Event boundaries…
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Embodied Practices
I think this would be a shame because one of the things I value about writing, is the act of writing itself. It is an embodied process that connects me to my own humanity, by putting me in touch with my mind, the same way a vigorous hike through the woods can put me in touch with my body. John Warner, “ChatGPT Can’t Kill Anything Worth Preserving“, The BiblioOracle Recommends Sums up in a few words why I make it a priority to include writing and running in my life. As someone who loves to juxtapose different ideas, argue a case with myself and ruminate on what’s been happening, writing helps me tame…
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Eating my Veggies … and a NaBloPoMo Wrap-Up
With going away for the weekend, moving house and a few other functions, I was feeling sorely in need of some veggies. This Greens with Roasted Squash, Tahini, & Dukkah is hitting the spot for lunch … and I have a veggie box that should be arriving soon. Anyway, today is my last post for NaBloPoMo. It’s the 1st of December here, but it’s still November 30th in the US, so I’m going to claim this as my last post. I started a day late as I didn’t stumble across this challenge until the 2nd of November via Elisabeth’s blog. I was a lurker there until NaBloPoMo, which pushed me…
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Why I Still Blog
This is a follow-up to yesterday’s post. Thank you to those who weighed in on the discussion in the comments. Suzanne made the important point that the popularity of your social media account or blog matters, which I agree with; I’m not commanding or seeking to command the heights of the attention economy. (Hopefully, that means I’m not petty and narcissistic?) I do find it helpful to think about why I blog and check in regularly with what’s motivating me. I don’t think all online publishing (or even most) online publishing is attention-seeking which is why I am still blogging. A major reason why I blog is for writing and…
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Public and Private
I had a blog before this one. Started when the kids were small, when personal blogs were more of a thing; I gradually posted less as the kids got older, and I went back and forth over privacy issues. Earlier this year, I finally decided there were too many posts to go through and individually make posts private, so I made the whole blog private and started this one. I still hadn’t decided exactly what would fill this space, and I probably haven’t yet landed on an answer to that question. The question came up again for me today as I read a post: Antivirals on the Convivial Society, discussing…