Getting More Personal

Over the last cou­ple months I’m sure some of you have noticed that I’ve been shar­ing more per­sonal sto­ries.   This isn’t to say that the blog is going to be all per­sonal (I’ll keep the the mix­ture of tech­ni­cal to per­sonal to irrel­e­vant), it’s some­thing to share a bit about myself in my writ­ing.   Some­times I don’t get per­sonal and tell my own sto­ries at all.   I think this leads to an abstrac­tion to any reg­u­lar read­ers that do not really know who I am.

Telling the sto­ries that mean some­thing to me is two-fold.   One is that it is cathar­tic like my Month of Mom series, oth­ers are just blow­ing off steam.   The sec­ond major thing is it makes sure that there is a record some where for my son to have the sto­ries about me that I may for­get to pass down in the old oral tra­di­tion — in my day we had modems that moved 1.4 KB down or up the net­work at a time — and we liked it.

I also think in a way it makes me a bet­ter writer.   I think it gets me in touch with the things that are away from the realm of tech­ni­cal.  The peo­ple that fol­low or friended me on any of the ser­vices I use can have a peek at me in a way that other blog­gers don’t share.   Other blog­gers can stay on set top­ics for an over­all blog bet­ter then I can, so it’s a hodge podge here of what you may or may not get.

I hope every­one is enjoy­ing the ride.

January 10, 2009 | Creeva | Tags: | View Comments
  • Miragi
    Definitely cool to get to know someone better. It's hard for me to get in to too many intimate details of past or present because, quite frankly, I'm better at trying to pretend that nothing bad ever happened. I envy your ability to put it out there. I'm still testing the waters to see if I wanna jump in and spill all my beans.

    Maybe you should put all your posts in a book of some sort for your baby(ies) when they are all grown. I mean, dude, what if the internet blows up!! :)

    Happy Weekend!
  • I have backups of all my posts - though still online. Eventually I'm going to print out each year of posts in an archive and keep them offline.

    Part of the reason I write the personal stuff is that their will be a record of my life that my great great grandkids can know who I am.
  • Miragi
    That's an excellent plan! There's not enough of history being kept any more. I know my parents really don't bother.....and my husband's parents didn't and haven't done so either. (My mother in law passed away back in 07). People need to know more about the past, and the only way to do it is with our stories.

    Rock on! :)

    Disqus <> wrote: creeva wrote, in response to Miragi:

    I have backups of all my posts - though still online. Eventually I'm going to print out each year of posts in an archive and keep them offline.

    Part of the reason I write the personal stuff is that their will be a record of my life that my great great grandkids can know who I am.

    Link: http://creeva.com/2009/01/10/getting-more-perso...

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