Hola, bienvenidos.

I’m twenty-eight years old. I’ve known about blogs and read them with interest–sometimes regularly, sometimes sporadically, sometimes rarely–for over a decade now. And writing energizes me. It clarifies what’s muddy. It soothes what’s hurting.

There’s a whole list of creative things that don’t really appeal to me. Crocheting. Sewing. Anything involving wood and hammer and paint. I’ve dabbled in many artsy hobbies and I’ve dropped many artsy hobbies. But writing is the one creative pursuit that captured my heart as a little girl and still holds it now (Some of my first stories featured Rocky the horse, and they were real gems.). I even studied English in college and dreamed of writing books.

So why am I just now starting a blog, when blogging seems to be dying instead of booming? Why don’t I have a habit of writing regularly, even if I’m not being published?

Because I’ve been scared. Scared of figuring out the technical side and the graphics side of a blog. Scared of sharing too much. Scared of sharing too little. Scared of creating an impression of myself that isn’t real. Scared of nobody caring, or everybody caring too much. Scared of getting things wrong.

Because I’ve been lazy. Consuming is so much easier than creating. Its demands are low, its immediate payoff high. It’s often the reverse for writing. I’m a mom of a toddler (Luke, age three) and a baby (Caroline, age one). My free time is more limited than it used to be. I gravitate towards the escape books and the Internet provide rather than the engagement writing demands.

You don’t have to tell me that fear and laziness are not good reasons not to do something. I’ve known that for a while now. But finally, often through the prodding of my husband (Hi Ryan), God has me at the point where I’m willing to show up and do the thing. Potential spotlight and failure and all.

I don’t know exactly what you’ll find here. Book recommendations, podcast recommendations? Poetry, fiction prompts, short stories? Accounts of daily life? Brain dumps? Analysis of whatever lesson God’s teaching me? Probably any and all of that. And who knows, maybe I’ll narrow things down as I go along–or maybe not.

But I don’t need to know that now, and hopefully if you’ve read this far, you don’t need to know that right now either. Read, or don’t read, as it catches your interest. Add your own thoughts and experiences–I love a good conversation. Ask what’s up if this page goes silent for a while and keep me on my toes.

Well. I’m here. First post, done. I hope you’ll hold on through the bumps, the backing up, the gears grinding. And I hope that somewhere in there, more often than not, I’ll write something worth your time and patience.

(Oh, and maybe in my next post I’ll get around to more of the standard introduction. But no promises.)