It feels good to come back to blogging. Any longer than a two-month hiatus would, I'm sure, effectively kill the blog--so in an effort to preserve my four remaining readers, I'm resuming regular posting. Thanks for your patience.
The last two months have been both gloriously full and strangely empty, and I have plenty to say about them--if I can find the words. You can expect several upcoming fluff posts, with pictures of our recent beach vacation and our trip home to Ohio...but besides that, I do have some more meaningful things on my mind.
There are, I believe, writers who blog/bloggers who write--but somewhere along the way, I became a blogger who blogged. Nothing wrong with that necessarily, but for me it meant I stopped using the gift I'd been given. For some inexplicable reason(s)--fear? laziness? vague inner turmoil?--I quit writing. Blogging was a substitute rather than an outlet.
It seems I had to stop blogging to write. After two months of hiatus, my desire to write still vastly outpaces my practice of the craft, but I have at least been writing. It's a start. And now I think I'm ready to return to the blog. I'll still be bringing the lighthearted life-update posts and the gratuitous photos of my adorable son, but I've always wanted this blog to be more than that. I want to share with you my heart, in all of its muddy complexity. I hope you'll keep coming by to read--it means the world to me.
I can't wait to see pictures and see what's on your mind! I'm just so happy you're still going to blog!
ReplyDeleteHi Amy,
ReplyDeleteI found your blog from a link on Todd and Micah Nicholson's blog. My husband and I both went to IWU (graduated in '03) and he was Todd's roommate in college (they grew up together). Anyways, just wanted to say Hi and let you know that I feel like you're a better writer than you give yourself credit for. I found your blog not too long before your hiatus. I enjoyed your Thankful Thursday posts. They always made me reflect on what I'm thankful for. I'm a blogger who just blogs and also always wish that my posts had a bit more substance. Feel free to check our blog out if you would like. I look forward to reading yours in the future. Take care :)
WooHoo! I was hoping you'd come back. :*)
ReplyDeleteGood Amy. You were my regular read, and since you've been gone, I've been bored!
ReplyDeleteWoops! I lost my last comment out there somehow.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back! I've missed your writing. There's plenty of room for both Fluff and Stuff, so bring it on--along with gratuitous pictures of that beautiful baby!
Welcome back!
ReplyDeleteSee...you have more than four readers! :) Welcome back.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to you resuming your blog. I know what you mean about bloggers who blogs vs. bloggers who write. When I started my blog it was a way to exercise my gift in writing and to get me back into the practice after being burnt out from college. It's not really that anymore, though. I guess I've become a blogger who blogs, but really I think that's because God has allowed other avenues for me to write for now and I use up all my energy writing articles so that I end up not really writing as much for my blog. I'd like to get back into that a big more, though. Regardless, I understand that the "desire to write still vastly outpaces my practice of the craft." True.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back! I always enjoyed your posts and have kept you on my blogroll anticipating this moment. Your gift and talent is too great not to share!
ReplyDeleteYay! your back:) I have been missing you, I can't wait to hear about life, and what's happening and what's on your mind and the lessons you're learning:) if that's not a run-on, I don't know what is:) Anyway, love you and glad you'll be blogging again my friend.
ReplyDeleteI would have to ditto Kayla's comment. It is great to be reading your site again!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you're back! I'm looking forward to reading your blog again :)
ReplyDeleteYea! I'm glad you're back, I've missed you :)
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