I went about the whole blog thing all wrong. I should have merely unpublished old posts here and changed the template. But I didn't. So now I have two blogs. And I have been publishing the same posts twice. And getting comments on each. I keep deciding to end that, to post anything newsy on my other blog, but keep this one should I ever have the need of it.
But, to be honest, I would keep this one because it is part of me. I have been writing since July of 2005. But I was not comfortable sharing all of me with my in-laws who requested access to my writing. And now I am stuck. I am glad I have the newsy blog for in-laws and mom. But if I separate the two, newsy and emotional, then this becomes an emo dump. Or I could retire this, write only for all audiences and keep my darker, harder bits to my journal.
In some ways I have outgrown this blog. I began it as "The Other Sister" because that's how I saw myself. I was just getting my own life, and thus the web address. Now, I am Audrey Michal Christensen, still afraid of stepping on toes and offending people and too shy to email my in-laws directly.
Do I publish the rest of my archives on the new blog? Delete this one? Retire this one with an entry re-directing my few readers? Do I delete the new one and put in the effort to re-upholster this one?
I don't know what to do, but I am not going to keep copying entries to both blogs. That's silly.
1 comment:
I think whether or not you keep this one really depends on how you journal. If journaling the "darker" posts works just as well as posting online, then I say delete this one and just keep the fluff one open. But if keeping this one fulfills a need, don't just get rid of it.
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