Comments on: NaBloPoMo Wrap-Up

By: Reflecting and Manifesting | A Patchwork Life

Reflecting and Manifesting | A Patchwork Life — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:39:33 +0000

[...] and family and writing (among others) goals for the upcoming year. I’ve also chosen to do blogging challenges before, as a way to give myself some new blogging energy, challenge myself as a writer, and pursue writing [...]

By: jackie

jackie — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:17:52 +0000

Thank you!

By: Lone Star Ma

Lone Star Ma — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:53:07 +0000

I enjoyed it!

By: jackie

jackie — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:20:29 +0000

I blogged for about four years anonymously, then set up this site to keep all my freelance stuff together, then moved here permanently and password-protected the old one. For me, it was a lot about purpose–my old blog served some of the same purposes that Facebook does now, keeping me in touch with family members and old friends, but it was also when I was in a period of my life when I was feeling much more isolated and in need of companionship and understanding, sadly enough. I consider it a very healthy sign that I no longer am blogging about the kinds of things I used to have to write about. But then, I’ve always been a bit too reserved to be a truly TMI/confessional blogger, even when no one knew it was really me.

I’ve often wondered what would happen if something truly horrible happened–would I keep blogging here? Would I start a new anonymous blog? Would I stop blogging altogether? It’s impossible to know.

By: What Now?

What Now? — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:44:47 +0000

You know, I’ve thought more than once about not blogging anonymously, now that I’m no longer an untenured assistant professor needing an outlet and support in a crazed, unhealthy environment. But it’s a little hard to imagine what blogging under my own name would look like. I guess your blog is a great example! I’m a little afraid that I’d have less to talk about; I’m not sure what that says about me!

By: jackie

jackie — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:06:14 +0000

Yeah, so far I’m liking the idea of posting every day during every other month, so I’d do it again in March, May, July, September, November. March is my spring break month, and May is when my girls turn 8, so those would be good blogging months any way, but September might be a real challenge…..

Thanks for the kind words! Since I don’t blog anonymously anymore, I tend to keep the grumping off the blog because it’s usually a bit more personal than I want to be here. I save crankiness for Facebook now, but I think I should probably add some old-fashioned private journaling when I’m in the grumpy places, because it helps me get out of it.

By: What Now?

What Now? — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:15:49 +0000

I did enjoy your month of daily blogging, but I also think it would be a lot to keep up that pace, as you say. I particularly enjoyed your teaching posts.

I’d like to get back to more regular posting myself, since I think that I then am less likely to grump and moan about daily stuff and more likely to think about actual interesting things!