I just realized that I did not post a single blog post during 2023. That is a shame. Because 2023 was a big year for me and my family. I defended my doctoral dissertation, I gave birth to our second child, and we moved internationally for Sam's job. Big, big year.
To that end, I'm starting another blog. This blog will still be around (at least, until Google kicks everyone off Blogger or something like that), but I will be posting here at this substack for the time being (if I finally get around to it, I might make a website or something instead, but for right now, this will do).
I'm not saying goodbye forever to this blog. It's possible that I will post things here instead, or cross-post things from my new blog here. But I haven't figured that out. With this new move, there are still so many things I'm figuring out.
But, for those who have continued reading this blog, thank you! I remember in one of my literature classes, a professor saying that we can learn a lot about how authors and poets progress based on their writer's notebooks. In many ways, I think this blog has been a writer's notebook for me. The internet is strange, as in, everything I publish online is just that--published. It's not like these writer's notebooks are hidden away in a drawer somewhere. They're out in the ether. But my blog posts feel like writer's notebooks to me--not always polished, sometimes banal, sometimes profound, but useful in practicing my voice and sharing my views.
Here's to a happy 2024 for each of us (and a hello from Bangkok from a still-sleep-deprived family of four!).
