Today I had lunch with my life-long friend MaryAnn. She’s been quite the Facebook fiend lately, posting a lot about any number of things. I told her, as I was stuffing my face with fried rice and princess chicken, you totally should take those Facebook posts and put them on your blog.
A long time ago I coerced MaryAnn into starting a blog and she liked posting for a while, but then the little bloggy space she created was abandoned without a second thought.
During our lunch MaryAnn told me all about some new challenges she’s undertaking to better her life, her quiet time spent at the A-frame cabin in the woods by the river, and some awesome things her husband can do, like building his own saw mill. I looked at her with amazement and said, duh, more blog posts!
What? You mean my life is actually interesting enough to blog about?
She looked thoughtful for a while and decided that yes, it would be fun to document some of these things in her life. Then she told me very pointedly that my blog, too, has been suffering. She wondered if Dobby was ever given a sock and was quite relieved when she read my last post about the candles I poured last week, which was written nearly a month later.
It’s so much easier to find blog posts in other people’s lives. My own life seems so ordinary and it’s hard to get motivated about expressing the happenings in writing. Do I really have to have pictures? What about my horrific grammar and editing skills? I lost track of why I blog and therefore it got harder.
I have to blog at my own pace and on my own time. So with that I hope I’m a little easier on myself when it comes to blogging, and MaryAnn, won’t you join me?
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Auntie B – your life may feel unexciting and mundane to you, but I thoroughly enjoy sharing small snipets of it! Although I’ve known you for more years than I can remember, through your blog I learn something new and interesting about you with every post, which I think only adds to the bond of our friendship. I hope that you’ll continue blogging at whatever pace works best for you, so that I and others can share in some of your adventures as they unfold.
As for my blog, you definitely did inspire me (as you often do in many areas of my life) to get back into it! Thanks!
You’re too kind, MaryAnn. But there is something to thinking our own lives are unremarkable simply because we live them every day. Writing/blogging isn’t about telling all the exciting and new things you’re doing every week, it’s about finding the excitement in the mundane. It’s there, I know, but I still have to find it.
Sara You always have something interesting to share, I get it though I now only blog when I feel I have something to say and Im not one of those fifty tips on bla-bla so yes go at your own pace and I will too. Just don’t be a stranger okay.
Hi Kath!! It’s been a while, yes? My blogging sluggishness also included finding comments to post on other people’s blogs, which is why you haven’t heard from me much. I’ve been reading your posts and newsletters though, and you’re always an inspiration.
Thanks for the encouragement, and you’ll be hearing from me!