Yikes

Tuesday Truth

Well. It appears I've slacked off on this challenge over the last month. It's been tough, and though I'm not one to up and quit, I'll admit it's been difficult for me to find fresh and engaging content for this blog. So I've largely just ... stopped.

I know, I know. It's contrary to what I've been doing all year! I had such high hopes and noble ambitions for the blog-a-day challenge. And for a good nine months, it was really working well! I found that it was easy enough to write about things that were engaging and poignant in my life. But then after a while, I discovered that I just didn't have much to say.

I'm beginning to learn to look at my life in a series of before and afters. Before I got divorced, I was living one way. After I graduated my Master's I'm living a different way. If I consider this year from a macro perspective, it's certainly an "after" year ... as in, after I decided to write a blog a day for a year, after I published my first book, after I broke 200 on my conventional deadlift.

All said, I hope it's also a "before" year. I hope it's a year that I look at and have a handful of wonderful benchmarks to measure it against, that it is a year before a major book deal and national reading tour, a year before I begin spending the rest of my days with the love of my life, a year before I broke 100 on my bench.

I know that if this time last year, I'd been this off on my mark with this blog, I'd be pretty bummed. I never like to set a goal that I think is ridiculous or too difficult to handle. I guess I'm feeling a little kind today and I know that there were very good reasons that my blogging slowed. Things like hanging with friends, visiting family, writing new fiction have all seemed pressing, engaging and important. I guess I've been busy living. Isn't that the point of all this?