Direction.

So I made a resolution this year to start blogging again.  

In 2007 I started a photography blog that kinda took off - at it's peak it was getting over a 1000 hits a day but then I abandoned it. Sometime last year I got burnt out and stopped blogging on my business blog.  I realized that 1. I wasn't enjoying it anymore.  2.  It was difficult to be "real" on a business blog. 3.  I was scared to give the Safeway checker my debit card with my name on it for fear she would recognize my name and then notice my screaming kid and think "gee.....some photographer lady she is...what a fake." (strangely this situation has happened, minus my projected thoughts). 4. I wanted to blog about other things besides photography but knew that my business blog and my public persona was not the platform to be doing so. 5.  I got cyber-stalked one to many times. Truly creepy things happened to me. 

So I stopped putting blogs out there.  

Since then I've kept a private blog and I've kept it that way because every time I come up with a direction for it I change my mind.  I know that I'm not here to be a spiritual teacher.  If anything I'd be sharing more of my epic mind-numbing mistakes.  I don't want to really talk much about photography, I'll keep that for the business blog if I ever pick it back up.   I don't want to just post a bunch of things about recipes or fitness or philosophies on motherhood (though that may come up).   So much of my blogging and deeper thoughts come out of deep emotions or painful experiences and I've been scared of putting too much of myself out there for fear of what people might think.  Or even worse, that one of the thoughts or beliefs I have might be wrong.  Obviously I need to get over it.  

Truthfully the only thing I know much about, other than photography, is being a single parent.  Life as a single parent....I can blog about that and blog about it good. (well....probably not good, but you never know!)  

So I finally have a direction now and hope to post more on it in this coming year.  I'm going to import some of my past posts from my private blog that have to do with single parenting so I can actually start out with content on my blog (in other words, I may not post again soon, and I want my 1 or 2 readers to actually have something to look at).

Here goes......

(an overly flattering selfie I took.....all this means is that I have no good photos for this post)