Today we are wrapping up the In-Between Things blog-versary extravaganza! It’s been a year! Next week we will get back to our regularly-scheduled content, probably only twice a week going forward. I feel like I’m still trying to figure out what I’m doing, but I also feel like it has been a very edifying experience and am looking forward to discovering what year two has in store.
A few numbers to make things seem important:
- 1 person
- 4 categories
- 52 weeks
- 145 posts
In celebration, I decided that this week we would take a look back at the past year by highlighting five favorite posts for each category.
I was sure that it would be simple to skim through and pick my faves. Not so fast my friend! Wow, there is a lot there. I also noticed formatting issues and little typos on pretty much every post (thank you for tolerating my imperfections). Other than the corrections, there weren’t really any posts that stood out to me. On the plus side, I guess that means that the writing is at least of a consistent quality (for better or worse). On the minus side, it made it challenging to pick out a few posts in each category to highlight, so I’ve tried to go with just a range of topics. I’ve re-opened the comments on these posts, please let me know what you think of them. And if your favorite posts weren’t highlighted, please leave a comment here about which one(s) you feel were overlooked.
Home & Garden Thursday (35)
Let’s be honest, I expected that having this category would advance my domestic goddess aspirations – my house would be clean, my garden would be thriving, I would be making delicious foods, crafts would be happening all over the place – all so that I would have clever things to write about. Well, my domestic goddess status is still aspirational, but there have been some flashes of brilliance. The good news is that there isn’t anything to do except to keep trying (all in the name of having material to write about of course).
Just thinking about this makes me want to make another one. We might be overdue for cream puffs, maybe coconut cream filling would be a nice touch…stay tuned for more on that. I was listening to a podcast on my walk the other day and it opened with this quote:
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself…”
– Carl Jung
It struck me that this is what I was feeling when I decided to start this blog. I was looking for an outlet to communicate. And even though writing is a solitary endeavor, I do feel more connected by having this outlet to explore different things and share my thoughts.
Thank you for reading.