Starting again

I had a blog for about three months in 2021. I wrote four posts, told maybe five people about it, and then quietly let the domain expire. I'm not totally sure why I stopped — I think I ran out of things I felt certain enough to say, and I didn't write again for a while because I'd half-convinced myself I needed to have something important to say before starting.

That's not a good reason to not write. It's actually just a good excuse.

I've been thinking about this site for a while. Not in an ambitious way — I'm not trying to build an audience or establish a platform or any of that. I just think better when I write, and I've let that habit lapse in a way I want to reverse.

The honest version of why I'm doing this now: I'm at a point where a few things are shifting — work, where I live, what I'm trying to figure out — and writing is how I make sense of things. It's less about having answers than about trying to find out if I actually have a position on something, or if I've just been carrying a vague impression of one.

I don't know how often I'll post or how long I'll keep this going. Last time I lasted three months. Maybe this time it'll be six. Maybe it'll just become a habit. I'm not making any promises to myself because I've learned that I don't respond well to the kind of pressure I put on myself about things like this.

What I do know is that starting is the hard part, and I've done that. The rest I'll work out as I go.