Introduction

I guess it’s time to introduce myself.

I’ve had an online diary on another site since 2003, and while there are many features there I like and have enjoyed, I kind of feel like it’s time for a change.  Plus I really like the Tags and Categories on WordPress.

So, this blog will be about a lot of things.  I’ve been contemplating, recently, the difference between a blog and an online diary.  I came to the conclusion that most blogs seem to be about a specific topic, often with many sub-topics (writing, gluten-free living, etc.), while a diary seems to be more about the life of the diarist, all sorts of topics and sub-topics all rolled into it.  But I could be wrong.  Maybe they’re just two words that mean the same thing.  I still don’t know.  But since I am one who writes about a lot of topics that pertain to my life, the Tags and Categories feature on WordPress is especially impressive to me.  I like that people can read about the things they’re interested in and not be bored by the things they aren’t.

This is the little blurb I have at the top of my old diary, to give some sort of idea of the sorts of things I write about: “woman, 44, writes for pleasure, writes for therapy, writes to share . . . writes about growth and change, family and friends, pets, spirituality, sexuality, odd ponderings, irony, fiction writing, the mundane and ordinary (and sometimes finding the profound within the mundane and ordinary) . . . gluten-free since late April 2007, living with fibromyalgia / chronic fatigue / depression / menopause / pcos / pmdd, trying to keep a sense of humor, one day at a time . . . life is constant motion, however slow or fast it may be“.