Permablogger.

I started my first blog in the year 2000, which is a little hard to wrap my brain around now, 24 years later. I loved putting my thoughts out there into the void of the inter-webs, be they trivial or profound (mostly the former, I imagine.) This was the Before-fore times—before ads clogged all surfaces, before social media, before algorithms, before our parents had discovered the internet. It was a wild and freeing era, and one I’ve always wished to get back to. Nostalgic.

I went through a number of websites and blogs, subject-oriented, in addition to my original personal blog (long-gone.) I dabbled in monetization. I tried reviews. As my hobbies shifted, so too did my blogging efforts. My favorite, Silver Rockets, became the new branding of my business in 2016—a move that seemed bold and smart at the time, but which I now lightly regret since parting ways with said business at the end of 2018 (if only for having lost the Twitter handle I went to a NASA Tweetup with. Not that Twitter exists in the state it was back in 2011, when so many of us in the space community were using it to communicate… and commune.)

Even in the years I “went dark” (see last post), I still thought about blogging. I struggled to write. It took years of counseling and life changes before I felt comfortable opening up again, without looking over my virtual shoulder to see if someone was monitoring what I said online, silently judging. As I told a friend recently, one of the few positives from losing my dad two years ago was gaining a much better ability to set boundaries, and giving far, FAR fewer fucks than I used to about what other people think.

Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and thou shalt see that it is barren.

So here I am, once again. Who even blogs anymore? But I have more to say now, things I couldn’t talk about before. I’d like to talk about my almost 30-year love of Sailor Moon, and the site that used to live here. I’d like to talk about movies I like. Strong opinions I hold about trivial subjects. It’s a personal blog, I can do what I want. Maybe this is finally the end of my writing funk. I’d love to be writing more again. Let’s see what happens!