An End or a Beginning?

I apologize to the few of you that visit here for not writing more often. I should have written this post weeks or moths ago. I've been busy blogging at RoutinesForWriters and setting up a personal website/blog. This blog, which began as practice in consistent blogging, now seems unnecessary and superfluous. That brings me to the present decision.

I do not plan to post here any longer. If you want to read about my activities and hear my thoughts (and I hope you do), visit me at RoutinesForWriters, where I blog about writing with other writers or Stephanie's Musings, where I review books and movies and share my thoughts on living as a Christian in this wonderful, exciting and sometimes hostile culture.

There may come a time I decide to resurrect this blog, but that time is not now. Now it is time to put this blog to bed. I hope you visit me in my other venues. Thanks for listening.

No Deal?

Dropped the ball again, didn’t I? I’ll probably do so a few more times before it’s all over, but I’m not defeated. No not yet. One thing I’ve learned in my life is that it helps if you have some “partners in crime”. Someone to encourage and who reciprocates. Or who will give you a much-needed kick. An old proverb says that a strand of three is not easily broken. I have found that to be so true.

That’s why a couple of writer friends and I started Routines For Writers, a blog which you can find at RoutinesForWriters.com . We wanted to encourage each other, rebuke each other and generally push and prod each other to actually accomplish some of the writing projects we discussed. I have to write at least one blog entry a week. Since they are in this with me and I don’t want to let them down, I’m more likely to keep up with that blog. At least that’s the theory. :)

I hope establishing that routine will help me keep up with this blog. On ‘blog-writing day’, I can write entries for there and here. At least that’s my plan. For now. I also have plans for putting up a website. Maybe even another blog. The reality is this blog might end up being absorbed into those others. Even if that happens, though, it won’t be a failure. Even though it does sort of feel like it. It’s just a change of plans. A change that actually signals growth. This blog was an experiment, created to help me establish the habit of regular blogging and writing. So whatever the end result, you will see more of me on the Web.

A Deal?

It's been over a month! I can't seem to stop apologizing to you, my loyal blog readers. (How many are there now? 2? 4? More?) I AM going to establish this habit of blogging. I am. Really. Be patient.

It occurs to me that part of my problem is that I really don't believe anyone comes to read my words. Because I believe that, it is easy to let other things take the place of blogging. After all, no will miss me. Once I skip a day or two, the habit is lost and I can easily forget about the blog for weeks.

I've come up with a solution! YOU need to talk to me! Please!

Tell me what you want me to talk about. Tell me you like reading what I have to say. Tell me how much you despise what I say. It doesn't matter what you say to, just say something. That will let me know someone is eagerly waiting for my next post AND it will help with the anxiety-producing question of what to write.

So is it a deal? I post a new blog here at least 3 times each week and you post a comment once a week?

Great! We just might succeed at this endeavor after all.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Hitting a Brick Wall

I know. You are right to be exasperated with me. I keep saying I will post on a regular basis. And I keep disappearing. This is exactly why I am doing this blog here, in a relatively secluded corner of the Web. I know myself! No matter what it is I want to accomplish, I always have some false starts and roadblocks. (Although the most recent, a move, family illnesses, starting a family business, all seem legitimate excuses. Aren’t they? Well, OK. You are right. Not if blogging is important to me.)

I recently heard in an amazing speech by a Dr. Randy Pausch. In “The Last Lecture”, he stated that the brick walls (that keep you from accomplishing your dreams) are there to make you realize the importance of your dream. The more important, the more you will work at getting past the brick wall, whatever the cost. If it isn’t important, you will change dreams. Not a bad thing, necessarily. Sometimes a dream or goal needs to be changed or even discarded.

This is not that kind of goal!

My desire to blog is so much bigger than that. This brick wall I keep meeting needs to be scaled, tunneled under, broken down or gone around! Not because my dream is to blog. My dream is so much bigger than that. But consistent blogging is a huge step to reaching so many of my dreams that I will keep at it til I succeed.

I hope you will stick around and watch my progress. And I hope I inspire you to break through a few of your own brick walls. THAT, after all, is my real dream. To encourage and inspire others.

Another excuse?

I will establish a blog writing habit. I promise. :)

At the moment, I am in the midst of a cross-country move. That always takes more time than I anticipate.

We had an interesting drive across the northern part of the US. We spent an entire day in Wyoming detouring around a closed interstate. Did you know there are not a lot of roads in Wyoming that follow the same route as the interstate? And many roads are still closed or icy in early April. We had to travel a couple hundred miles north and east when we really just wanted to go east. We finally made it through Wyoming, only to spend another day and a half in Missouri.

It was certainly an adventure. One that I’m glad to say is over. :)

Look for more musings from me soon. (When I finally dig myself out from under all the packed boxes.)

My Blog has been transferred!

Moving, whether physically or electronically, can be sooo stressful. And when both happen at the same time . . . well, let's just say I'll be glad when things settle back down to normal. :)

After years of having the same domain name, my husband and I decided to retire it. Seemed like the thing to do. After all, we are in the process of a big move anyway. Why not clean house electronically at the some time? It would also take care of the spoofing problem we were noticing in our email program.

I thought I had transferred all my accounts to another email. Either a free gmail account (newsletters, Groups, etc) or a personal one. Apparently I forget to change my Blogger account. Either that or I didn't remember my password correctly. When I tried to access it, I couldn't. Now it is possible the problem lies more with Google or Blogger rather than my faulty memory, but it's still a problem. They can't send a reset password code to the old address. When I emailed them about it, they sent me an email saying they had switched my account to the new address. When I followed the link, however, it only resulted in creating a new account. I still cannot access http://thoughtsmusingsandmore.blogspot.com. I will try again, of course, but I decided to not make my loyal readers wait any longer to read my musings. :) (You know who you are.)

I will start posting here immediately. I hope to establish a regular schedule of 2-3 times per week when we finally get settled in our new home. For the next month or so, though, it might only be once a week. I AM moving, after all.

Here's to the electronic age! Where more and more stuff is lost than ever thought possible.