Why this Blog Exists

Posted on 02/15/2007 09:34 pm by Amy Jane

I’ve been asked why I blog. In short, two main reasons: a sense of community in the relatively isolated workplace of motherhood, and regular writing exercise.

That, and, like I heard Lord Byron said:

If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.

On this blog I explore all that pleases me: stories, words, writing, some music, discovering ideas, and how to think about them.

I am someone who has always processed by articulating. This is where my content comes from. Some is substantiated by my own research, but all is substantiated within my experience, and it is on this authority that I write.

“Where did you get your copies?”
“Out of my head.”
“That head I see now on your shoulders?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Has it other furniture of the same kind within?
“I should think it may have: I should hope–better.”

–Jane Eyre

Who knew an ordinary life would require so much thought?

For a sampling of the way I think, you can browse my
Favorite Posts From Year Two:

Part one and Part two.

The top articles (according to me) from 2006/2007:

What I learned in my first Year of Blogging (Pt. 1)
What I learned in my first Year of Blogging (Pt. 2)