Every phase of life has a focus.
In college, I thought about passing classes and paying for school. This blog was stagnant.
During my first full-time job, I spent a hefty chunk of every day writing introspective blog posts. In my second full-time job, I honed the skills of writing and editing, and observed great leadership—less time doing introspective blog writing, more time learning the nuts and bolts of marketing copy and manipulating conversions.
Then we moved to northern Michigan, and I entered my third full-time job. I didn’t do much writing in general those days.
I took a brief interlude for full-time freelancing, which was also when I found out isolation on 12 acres day after day is not in my skill set.
Got my fourth job, and started writing middle grade fiction. Blogging is sporadic, but I’m pushing out the third book in the middle grade fiction series.
We also had a baby in there, and acquired some pets.
Mini-resume aside, the focus of this phase of life has been more on people than on introspective blog posts. And that’s okay, because life is full of seasons and people are always worth investing in.
For my next few posts, I’ll be doing a mini-series on the different people I’ve been focusing on lately—which will hopefully kickstart more regular posts from this corner of the internet. No promises. But we’ll do our best.
And in case you only read this far because you were hoping for a picture . . .
In this episode of Things You Didn’t Anticipate Hearing Yourself Say: “Please stop eating your cereal from between your toes.”