It's been a while since I posted here, and I could come up with a list of excuses for not posting. Something like:
- I've been busy.
- I've been sick.
- I've been traveling.
- I've been Twittering.
- I've been Facebooking.
- I've been swamped at work.
- I've been dealing with family issues.
All of the above are true, but the real reason I haven't been blogging is that I really haven't really felt like it. I've had lots of great things to blog about, like a fun press trip to Disneyland, courtesy of Disney, a wonderful reunion with my oldest and dearest friends in New York for a bat mitzvah, a whale-watching trip to Monterey with my parents, my 48th birthday (flowers above were from Frank) and of course, Barack Obama's transition from candidate to President. I've wanted to write about all of these, but somehow, time slips by and days meld into each other, and the inspiration to document it all seems to have vanished.
Yes, friends, I've lost my blogger mojo. It reminds me of a Lucinda Williams song, "I think I lost it/Let me know if you come across it."
I'm a little tired, and somewhere along the line, it stopped being a fun little self-indulgence and became another job, added to an already overloaded schedule. My blog has been for me a memoir, a tool of empowerment, and a source of sanity at times. When it started feeling like a burden, I needed to take a break.
Over the past month, I've considered whether I should continue blogging here at all, whether it means enough to me to take the time to keep up a blog on a daily, weekly, or even monthly basis. I could just pack it all up and spend any writing time over at MOMocrats, Kimchi Mamas, or SV Moms. I could just spend all my time on other social networking. I could spend my time with my family. I could take up snowboarding or needlepointing or napping. At this point, I just don't know.
So, to figure out whether or not I should pack it all in, I'm going to make one big effort to get back on the blog and do NaBloPoMo this month. It's a short month, so I should be able to figure out whether it's worth it for me to keep blogging or just retire the blog on a happy note.
Watch this space for more to come...at least for now.
