A better definition is hard to find.
Why do we write? Surely everyone has his or her own reason. One of the special
pleasures of web surfing is discovering someone who is able to express those reasons
in good writing. Sometimes we have a good idea of where we're headed - we expect
to encounter something worth reading. And sometimes we simply stumble
across writing that is capable
of moving us, of stopping us in our tracks and saying "yes":
About this site
I just finished tweaking the duties on my Proverbs 31 list and sat down to work on my site. I pulled up my page and saw It’s Not Easy Being a Bunny splashed across the front page, and thought, “Wow, Amy, you’re deep.” What’s worse than my lack of theological profundity is that you fine, intelligent people keep coming back.
You should be ashamed.
It’s not that I don’t think coherent thoughts. In fact, I’m my husband’s star pupil when he teaches through Systematic Theology. It has nothing to do with the fact that I’ve sat through it several times, spanning several years. And I read his notes before class.
It’s just that while I fold nine loads of laundry, I blog about four posts in my head—five, if I make the first one a two-parter. But when I sit down, the screen stares back at me blankly, daring me to wax and wane, and Baby Energizer inevitably wakes up from her 20-minute recharge. Nevertheless, when I write about nothing, the words flow freely and quickly. And I need quick. Enter stage right: It’s Not Easy Being a Bunny.
I have a house to run, you know.
When I first started this blog, the purpose was to post my thoughts in one place so I didn’t have to keep cutting and pasting the same email content over and over to my very [cough] small circle of friends.
This ain’t a preachin’ site, which is good because I don’t believe in women-folk preachers. This ain’t a political blog. I like politics, but my husband advised me to stick to stuff I know about.
Ditto the current event blog.
Which is why this blog will always be about my laundry pile and the resulting pursuit of savoring Christ in the details of life. Nothing more, nothing less.
I doubt that I have close to anything (visibly) in common with the blogger of
this post. Certainly not religion (though it wasn't hard to guess, I had to look
up Proverbs 31 to make sure that we were dealing with A
Woman of Valor), probably not politics, nor the role of women in the home
or outside it. But as this woman sits in front of her computer screen, taking
a break from the tasks which she happily accepts upon herself, but still finds
draining, she is able to express something that probably all personal web site
writers have in common. The wonderful pairing of the mundane with the exalted,
of the laundry pile with the pursuit of her God, is an exceptional insight into
what a personal web site can be.
Go to: Mental Gymnastics?, or
Go to: On completing a web site