Keeping it wild

I suppose starting a blog on New Years Day is only slightly less predictable than joining a gym. Nonetheless, here I am. The theme of this blog will be...look, you're going to have to go to some other blog to find a theme. In fact, that is the key reason why I delayed creating a blog for so long. In short, if you find yourself getting frustrated that I am wandering off the point, well, there isn't one.

This could have been a professional blog in which I focused on my various writing, translation, or poetry projects. Or a hobby blog about gardening, pottery, aquaria, tai chi, or knitting. Or a mommy blog, but while I am a mommy and I do love my daughter, I can't imagine centering a whole blog around any one part of my life. And that's the problem. All of my passions rotate in their importance. This is occasionally due to the seasons or some other external force, but often there is no reason at all.

Catch me on the right (or wrong) day and I could make a blog about finding the best possible notebook. Do not encourage me on this as I probably actually could write a year's worth of content about the best size, binding, cover materials, paper quality, line height or lack of lines, and the proper price[1] to encourage rather than inhibit the notebook's use.

I think that I would slowly go mad if I tried to narrow down my writings to one particular subject. Instead, I will do my best to tag posts so that you can read the Wanderjenn "pottery blog" or the "aquarium blog" or even the "calligraphy blog" (I got a Chinese calligraphy set for Christmas and I am dying to try it out). Maybe I am a fool for not properly establishing my "personal brand," but you can't build a tarot deck without a fool.

All that being said, Happy New Blog!

[1] It should be high enough to insure quality materials were used and to provide a certain feeling of luxury, but low enough so that it is not too hard to use it for fear of "spoiling it." In fact, I would say that notebooks should always have pages which can be detached seamlessly so that you can start over again with a different subject. Speaking of which, isn't it lovely the way that blog posts can be deleted...