Its Been A Ride

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

Back in June of 2005 I wrote my very first blog post. I poured my feelings out onto a blank page on my computer screen and sent it out into cyberland for the entire world to read. I can’t explain why I felt the need back then to blog. I know that I have always had a need to put words to paper/screen. I greatly enjoy the connections that get made across the globe through words.

Back then, blogging was a new trend. It was a way for people to share the experiences of their lives with a global audience. I started out writing about my thoughts on things happening in the world and then I morphed into a health blogger where I shared my personal and intimate details about a food addiction, losing 100 pounds and struggling to find myself while my marriage fell apart.

My posts followed pretty basic formats like Menu Mondays, Tell it Tuesdays, What’s for Dinner Wednesdays. My job was simple then, as a writer, I needed to inspire my readership on their own journey toward health and I promoted other blogger that I enjoyed on my own blog through side bar links. (It was barely ever for a monetary gain.) We didn’t have things like SEO, we gained traffic by submitting our own blogs to search engines and blog rolls across the internet…day after day. The days were LONG as we tried to find the formula to do things properly. As a writer, it was grueling and not at all glamorous. Our writing was almost as bad.

I participated in an annual fund raising event called Blog A Thon where writers like me, could write posts over a 24 hour period that would collect donations for a charity of our choice. Back then, I wrote about a non profit here in Florida called the Peace River Refuge. They rescued and cared for big cats and other exotics. Blog A Thon was always a very big deal for me. Sleep deprived. Writing about things I was passionate about. Helping others. It was spectacular.

I really miss the grittiness of blogging days of old.

This past week, I have been down with a pretty significant head cold/flu. Lots of time in my muttled brain. I admit, I have been reminiscing a bit. Trying to determine if I was going to completely hang up my online writing gig or if there was a way for me to find peace and joy here again. I need to find a way to step out of my head and just pour myself into posts again. Like I used to.

I want to inspire people. To make them think. Feel. And, I simply want to write again.

I spent some time this evening, sorting back through some of my old blog posts. (Yes, I have them archived from way back then.) I think it may be fun for me to work to revamp some of that ancient content and share it again here….as I work to condense my piles of content into one big space. I don’t think I am going anywhere. Blogging is as engrained in my soul as breathing is. Now, I just have to find a way to find balance for it all.

Prepare yourself my sweet Substack readers.