Fourteen years, more than 2200 posts, and umpteen-thousand words ago, this blog started off as something quite different from the form it takes today. When it all began, I was a stay-at-home mom running a business from home, helping manage a small farm, and the blog was how I shared my family news and photos with far-flung friends and family. Over the years it morphed into something like a journal of accomplishments, mine and the children’s, and finally into a writer’s blog. My intent was always to stay in touch with connections I couldn’t see in person. The reality has been greater than I could ever have imagined.
A decade ago I was newly divorced (it was all over but the paperwork on this day ten years ago). I had no job, no income, four small children, and a place to stay because of my wonderful and eternally patient father. I had no degree. Despite having run a successful small business for a decade at that point, potential employers only saw ‘no education’ and ‘self-employed means lying about skills and/or can’t take orders’ (yes, I was told that last to my face, as I was lucky enough to interview with people who knew me from the previous business). I had been writing, a little, and had finished one or two very short stories. I had published nothing.
Ten years later:
I have a STEM Degree, earned in 4.5 years while working 2 or 3 jobs (some years more than others). I achieved a childhood dream of obtaining a job title: Scientist. I am working in my field and making more money than I dreamed possible a decade ago. I am supporting my children as they blossom into adults. They are thriving and healing from the scars this last decade left them with. They are wonderful productive contributors to the human race and I am endlessly proud of all of them.
I am remarried to my First Reader. We knew one another a decade ago, in passing. We were, if anything, acquaintances. But that flowered cautiously into friendship, and more, and deepened into a partnership beyond my wildest dreams of support and caring.
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4 responses to “Bloggiversary”
I doubt any of us have the ?gift? of accurately seeing what we’ll be ten years from now. My take is extremely unlikely. One, as they say, for the book. 😎
‘gift’ in the chinese curse sense…
The world is a bigger and better place because the work of writers and bloggers.
Thank you for sharing.
The hind brain continues to gnaw at finding the attic access hatch at the Ginja Ninja’s place.
Flying a small video camera equipped quadrotor through the attic might be fun, but not very practical, and maybe a cellphone capable of recording video and an extendable painter’s pole might be a better choice.
When you lay it out like that, what an amazing list of accomplishments! I am proud of the woman you, my Oldest, have become, and I am so glad you are in my life.