It’s funny how I drift in and out of my blog always with the threat of staying for good. Like a volatile relationship, I scream I’ll stay if my blog were only prettier, smarter, funnier. It refuses to budge, giving me another excuse to break up with it. Only to come back again, chastised and repentant and inspired to do my half of our relationship better. For now, we’re on again.
As I get older, I’m learning more and more that nothing will ever be perfect and that good enough really is the key to making things happen. I’m glad I came across this post from my Twitter friend, The Laptop Mom, Nika Stewart. It reminded me to stop aiming for perfect. I have no further to look than at my old posts over on Exits and Entrances or on Nashville Mom to confirm this idea. Did the blogosphere notice when my blogs met their untimely deaths? No. Seriously. Have I learned more about myself because of them? Yes, and it makes me cringe. And sigh. Mostly cringe. Will my space here on WordPress be the final destination of my words? Doubtful.
But had I not at least started blogging, I never would have come to where I am now: A little more comfortable in my own skin, and hopefully on my way to actually turning this space into a landing platform for a potential small business.
William Zinsser writes in the Introduction in his book, On Writing Well, that “Bloggers are saturating the globe”. His book is celebrating 30 years of being in print – revised, expanded and having sold more than a million copies.
