I’ve been getting emails lately telling me to renew my registration for this domain name, and it’s reminded me that (oh yes) I have a website to maintain. I have so much guilt over how little I post here. I know how dumb that sounds, but I love this little blog, and I want to do it proud. I’ve had some form of a narrative web presence (translation – DiaryLand then Livejournal then Blogspot then WordPress) since 2001, when we called them “online diaries.” While tenure doesn’t mean I have to, or even should, keep it up (the vast majority of what I posted in my 20′s was an insufferable combination of my social calendar, complaining, swear words, and a generous handful of un-subtle song lyrics — usually Morrissey/Smiths, Hefner, and/or Belle and Sebastian), I like revisiting my former selves — even if the primary emotion I feel is embarrassment, followed by relief that yes, I’ve left parts of that person behind.
Here’s some of me in 2005 on Livejournal, when I was just about to move to Boston and turning a multiple of 8 was enough to please me. Funny enough, I didn’t have the same observation when I turned 32 this year.
I wasn’t kidding about Morrissey.
Of course, I’m a lucky web writer because now I get to write things online for work (another reason I am especially fond of this blog – without it, I would never have my job at Yankee). I get to blog about food at The Yankee Seeker and travel at the Explore New England blog series, and I am grateful every day to do something I love for a living, but it doesn’t leave a whole lot for here. I was never one of those food bloggers that got up multiple posts a week in the first place. I mostly cook and bake for the fun of it, rarely the eating of it — just ask any of my past and present co-workers. Most of the stuff I actually eat is a weird rotation of toast, soup, grilled cheese, omelets, steamed broccoli, English muffin pizzas, and candy.
If this site is going to keep chugging along, it’s going to have to evolve beyond food, or I’m going to have to start cooking more, or taking less photos so I can get posts up faster.
Or maybe I’ll just have to let it die.
I don’t know.
At least I can promise I won’t go back to listing all of my birthday gifts and constantly mentioning this guy and his back pocket vase.
Now there’s someone who has stayed remarkably consistent.
Stay tuned.
