After a long absence I have found myself drawn back to this blog with a strong desire to get back into the groove of writing entries on a fairly regular basis. Much of the drive to do that has come from another area of writing activity that I have indulged in over the last few months, namely my entry into the world of poetry. This was all entirely unexpected but has now reached the point where I have written a good number of poems and set up a new website to give myself a place to publish them. If you are interested in looking at that site and reading my poems you can find it here: andapoet.blog.
I suppose that having set up my new poetry blog I started to think about other writing and I remember how much I used to enjoy rattling out little pieces for this blog even though I always knew that pretty much no-one ever read them. In addition, I have changed quite a lot over the last couple of years (something that I am sure I will write about here soon), and I am now much more comfortable with throwing my thoughts ‘out there’ without worrying about how that might be judged by anyone (or, probably more importantly, by myself).
So here I am, back on the blog. To help draw myself back in I have changed the design theme of the blog (it now matches my poetry site), simplified some of content being shown and begun to work my way back through past entries. I have been tidying them up, correcting obvious typographic errors etc. and in one or two cases removing them from view if I felt they didn’t fit anymore. I’ve done this tidying process back to the beginning of 2018 and intend to go further back over the next few weeks. I’m also going to add some comments to some of the posts to give a little update on what happened next where this feels relevant.
If you have stumbled on this blog for some reason then I hope you will find something here that you enjoy or find interesting. I’m planning on adding a page that links back to some of my favourite past entries and I am hoping that I might be able to add a new entry on a regular, perhaps near-daily, basis.
Finally, please don’t be shy – leave a comment on a post to let me know what you are thinking etc. I can see from the blog stats that random people do visit this site every now and again and it would be brilliant if sometimes a visitor stopped to actually say hello!
Tim O'Hare 