August Blogging Challenge

A fellow blogger, one whom I also share a name with, recently wrote a post about her lack of blogging everyday and how she missed it. And honestly, I miss it too! As if right on cue, she decided to blog everyday next month - which she has dubbed the August Blogging Challenge. So, I've decided that come this August, I too am going to join in the challenge of blogging every weekday. Just like I used to many, many years ago (on my older blog). Hooray, right? Fingers crossed that I can actually do it. I mean life is busy enough as it is.

I'm hoping that by putting it out there, that I can actually blog every single week day. Now I do have a lot of drafts sitting and waiting, so those will definitely be used. But I also want to touch base a few days a week and just blog about my day and what has happened. Even if it's just what I had for breakfast, or a song that's stuck in my head.

Now here's where YOU the readers come in... If you have any topics that you would like for me to write about, or any questions you'd like for me to answer, please let me know in the comments below. That way I can add them to my blogging list.

So, will you be participating in the August Blogging Challenge? If you plan to, leave your blog's URL in the comments section.

The Correlation Between Blogging & Chapters In Life

Sometimes I miss my old blog... Sometimes I think about blogging in that space again, a lot actually. And then I think about all that has happened between now and the last time I posted there. So much so that I felt as though I needed to start fresh, because something within me had changed. I was the same, but not, and because of that shift, I started this blog - in hopes of documenting my life in a new way, a way where I could control more of what I put out into the world. Because honestly, my old self, that open-book-of-a-girl, was feeling too exposed and I needed a different space to share the way I wanted to share.

In an almost comical way, I feel sad for leaving my old blog behind. I feel guilty for moving on in life without it. As of now it stands as a reminder of the many chapters in my life. I started that blog a little over a year after I married my now ex-husband. I was a twenty-five year old newlywed. I was young and contemplating what to do with my life. During those years I went back to college with hopes of becoming a teacher. I cut negativity out of my life, lost touch with old friends and made new ones. Across those pages and posts of that blog I redefined myself, I became in touch with myself, I grew as a person. Four years of my life are represented on that blog. A blog where I shared every single photo I wanted to share, every ancient memory, every little thought, every event, every single word that I needed so badly to express.

I'm thirty now and I don't blog as much as I used to. I do miss it, but I am accepting of the fact that now I spend more time living life without the constant need to document. I focus more on enjoying the moment, and sharing more with the people in my life, and a lot less in the digital world. And as much as I miss my old blog, I look to this one with hope and a smile on my face in regards to of what the future has in store for me; countless journeys in which to fill up the pages of this blog with what I see fit.