Copyright 2010 Margot PotterHello Love Muffins
I like to peruse my blog stats now and again just to see who is dropping by for a peek. I've noticed a fair amount of my professional craft industry connections recently and I wanted to post today an explanation of this blog and why it's here and why I have a second craft dedicated blog.
For the first four years, this was a crazy mash up of professional and personal posts. Since I work in a fairly conservative industry and since my unfiltered personal posts, rants and essays aren't relevant to my professional career, I decided to separate the topics into two different blogs.
Mostly, I don't promote this blog unless I want to share information I think will help other people. This is a place for me to say what's on my mind without having to filter myself. I don't write about politics or personal matters or spout expletives on my other blog, but I do here. I don't link to this blog in my email signature or from my website. You have to go into my Blogger profile to find it.
Writing is my guilty pleasure and I am a woman with strong opinions. I took down four years of posts last year because I was worried about my professional contacts being offended.
I am 46 years old and I'm simply not going to hide or pretend to be someone else. Love it or leave it...this is who I am. I don't expect other people to think like I do or to agree with me. I am always willing to listen to divergent points of view with an open mind and an open heart.
If you're here looking for crafts, please visit my blog next door. If you want to read the mostly uncensored writings of a woman of substance who is a liberal independent feminist smarty panties with Zen master wishes and Taoist dreams...you've come to the right place.
Proceed with caution. We now return you to our regularly scheduled program...
xoxo
Madge
4 comments:
I SO love this... "If you want to read the mostly uncensored writings of a woman of substance who is a liberal independent feminist smarty panties with Zen master wishes and Taoist dreams.."
I happen to enjoy this blog more than any of your other ones...mostly because you do NOT apologize for who you are. Why would you? There is NOTHING wrong with who you are.
More women should be celebrating WHO they are rather than trying to fit into the expectations of someone else.
I'm a big believer that those who need me to fit into their idea of "appropriate" really aren't the kind if folks I find appealing to be around anyway.
I am who I am, and it took me a long time to figure out who that is...I appreciate all the growth that has happened and continues to happen...and I wouldn't change a thing.
That sucks about removing four years worth of posts. I hope you saved them to a flash drive or something. That is four years of your life. Had it been me, I know that the temptation of opening a totally new account would have been strong. Just start over more anonymously. I am assuming those same business contacts have access to this account... or maybe you did start over more anonymously? Whatever. Everyone deserves a place to speak their mind freely. We live in a world where we have to be so PC all the time... you don't want to offend anyone. Meanwhile, you aren't being remotely true to yourself. So, be a feminist smartypants. I'm sorry. I got that wrong. It was a liberal Independent feminist smarty panties with Zen master wishes and Taoist dreams and let the chips fall where they may. This is going to be so much fun.
I rekindled this blog because so many of my creative friends enjoyed it and because I love writing. I'm not really hiding this, I'm just not promoting it. It's my guilty pleasure. I kept all of the posts and am hoping to use some of them for books and reposts and my own edification.
Thanks for the support, it means the world.
Cheers,
Madge
Loving to write is why I blog. Mine is a mish mash. I actually have TWO blogs and I wanted to keep one professional and guess what? It's got some mash in it, too.
I hate labels, don't you?
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