Well, a new *virtual* home, anyway. If you’ve been here before (and thank you, if you have – I truly appreciate everyone who reads), then you’ve probably realized that I made the jump and switched from Blogger to WordPress. It’s been… a process. A learning process. And a humbling one. Nothing like making a change like this to help you realize just how much you don’t know.
But… I’m glad to be in a more customizable, more accessible virtual space. I never thought I’d get to this point with this blog – it was just a way to have conversations with myself, essentially, in a virtual space. An extension of my written journal, in a way. But then I started reading other blogs, and (eventually) leaving comments, and finding out just how valuable a virtual community can be, in addition to the community and network I am building where I live. I’ve found others who have similar interests, whose writing I love to read. And I wanted to be a more, well, semi-permanent part of that virtual community.
I know I’ll never have thousands of followers. That’s not my goal. But I do appreciate the opportunity to share some of the random thoughts in my head, to know that somewhere, out there (ha, old 80s movie reference…), there are others who have similar thoughts, who may find their way here, too. I look forward to building and growing my little community, and feel like this is the first, well, grown-up step to doing that.
So thanks again for reading and being here. It means a lot.
The community is the reason why I’ve kept blogging too. And you are one of the people who inspire me to keep doing it, so thank you! If you need any WordPress help, please let me know!
Thank you so much! I’ve gotten a ton of help from a blogger who recently did exactly what I did. It was beyond helpful… but I am sure I will have many more questions as time goes on! Hopefully the time I’ve spent this weekend just playing around will help. I do think that I managed to get the new theme installed, and I also managed to customize the homepage to remove a bunch of irrelevant stuff and add in a few things that I wanted. My only current challenge is that I can’t seem to upload an image to the About Me page, but that’s not a major issue. I don’t post many (any?) pictures anyway. And, hearing that you come back because you like reading what I write is… well, let’s just say it made my morning. I hope that the random words I send out into the universe strike a chord with at least one other person, even if I never know about it. 🙂