Coming Around Again

I know nothing stays the same,
But if you’re willing to play the game,
It’s coming around again.

Even though that Carly Simon song is about marriage, I keep hearing that lyric in my head. Now that I switched to this Genesis framework/Lifestyle child theme and have my categories up at the top, I’ve been going through the categories looking for ones I can combine so there aren’t three rows of them. Which means I’ve been reading a lot of old posts.

You know what? In 2006, 2007, this blog was really good. I wrote exactly the way I spoke, let words just pour out of me onto the screen. I wrote posts where I talked about what I did all day, what I watched on TV that night, places I went, things I saw. I told my readers how awesome they were, how much I appreciated them, how important they were to me. I wrote posts where I linked to new readers, it blows my mind how some of today’s most well-known bloggers were once my commenters. But I know exactly why those bloggers stopped reading and commenting.

I started writing paid posts. I don’t regret doing it, at the time I needed the money so much, but what I do regret is letting it change the way I wrote. I realize now that my writing got really formal sounding, like I was writing ad copy instead of incorporating the paid links into regular posts. I lost my voice. And that sucks.

I can’t go back and make it 2006 or 2007 again, but I’ve been reading those old posts and, well, trying to re-learn how I wrote back then. I liked that Table for Five, and I want to get it back.   I’m still accepting the very occasional paid posting job, it’s hard to say no to some of the dollar amounts I get offered, especially when it’s for a product I really like.  But I think I can see now how I can get back to the kind of blogging I used to do and still work in the occasional paid post or giveaway.

If you have a minute or two, I encourage you to click on the category links up at the top. The ones with the little arrows next to them mean it’s a dropdown menu and there are subcategories.  It’s been fun for me, finding posts I had completely forgotten about writing, and reading where I was in my life three or four years ago.

And if I haven’t told you lately, THANK YOU for reading this blog. Thank you for reading, and commenting, and making me feel like I’m not just talking to myself.  I hope you all stick around for the next five years.

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