Welcome to my blog

Years ago, I guest blogged on our family’s mission blog. It was fun. I enjoyed it! Until the paranoia set in, that is. I imagined all the people everywhere gleaning personal information about our family from my blog. We got a couple weird emails (I found out later these were spam), and I quit.

Flash forward to a few months ago. I had my first novel to the querying stage and was getting ready to either try to get it published or self-publish it (I was on the fence but leaning toward self-publishing at the time.) Turns out, most authors have at least a website and most have a blog. Who knew? It’s all part of that branding/getting your name out there thing that we’re supposed to do to promote our work.

My dear husband took care of everything. He reserved the URL and web hosting and started working on the web design. Meanwhile, I starting thinking of ideas of things to blog about — not limited to a writing theme, of course, that would get boring. On the contrary, I had dozens of ideas floating around in my head — recipes, life and people we know in Africa, some of my favorite sewing projects, I could go on and on.

I really should have written them down. It’s a well known fact I have a bad memory.

The website came online and I couldn’t remember any of those ideas.

I know they will come back once I’m not so nervous and excited about having my own website and blog. This time I’ll take notes. So…

Welcome to my blog. I hope you enjoy it in the months to come. I know I will. 🙂