The View from 58-inches High

My first blog was started in 1997. Back then they were called online journals and you made them yourself in raw html. My friend Sarah started one to allow her family to keep up with what she was up to during her classes and co-op terms. Back then the idea really was that these journals existed just for your friends and family. It was never expected that anybody else would ever wonder on to your site. I mostly wrote about the stress of getting ready to join the real world and my day to day activities (pre twitter and FB status updates). It was my way of sorting out my thoughts as I prepared to graduate college and then as I struggled through my first job, moving to a new place, and adjusting to married life.The journal only lasted through my college years and died off quickly after graduation.

Through the next 10 years I had on-and-off attempts at journaling again. It seemed like every time a new journaling site hit the web I was on it. Every time I started up again I thought “this time will be different”. The problem was always that I had nothing to write about. My life was simply not that exciting. Whenever fun, interesting things happened I was too busy enjoying them to write about them so it always ended up being a bitch-fest about my life.

Last year I revived my blog and started a real site. I was motivated by a number of events in my life that left me feeling very fragile. My goal was to document the my life in terms of the relationships around me.While I found this fun it resulted in barely one post a week. At the same time I started to notice the blogs I most enjoyed reading had a purpose. So now I’m trying yet another incarnation of this blog. I don’t know what purpose I’ll find but I hope to add posts that others will find useful.