It's time

I'm going to take an official break from this blog.


I know -- given the infrequency with which I have posted, you weren't likely to notice until I'd been gone more than a month. Unless I know you in real life blah blah excusecakes something something.


I'm not deleting the blog. (Yet.) I've written a lot here that I'm proud of and obviously want to save.


I want to walk away because I have thought about doing so a lot over the past few years.


I want to walk away because I don't feel like I have any better handle on this blogging thing after six years at it. I think part of that is because I blog in secrecy. I no longer find this acceptable.


I purposely wrote this blog under a pseudonym so that I could talk about whatever I wanted with little fear of backlash. As a result, however, I've had to keep huge segments of my life off the blog for fear of "discovery." [cue visual of ET running from the scientists]


I don't want to write in secrecy anymore. I want to be able to give people the URL to my creative site and not talk about blogging in the past tense as though it's something I no longer do.


I want to save the bitching for my journal and create an online space where I can openly share my writing, drawings, and creative ventures that intrigue but also frighten me, like photography. I want to tell people about my life and my city. I want to be able to post pictures of silly things like the haircut I just got.


I don't have any logical conclusion to this entry, aside from saying that I know I'm making the right move because I feel free as I type this.


Thank you for visiting this space, for leaving comments, and for following me. It's been pretty great but it's time to get used to something different.