I received three beautiful back issues of Artful Blogging. I’m really enjoying pouring over the lovely pages and soaking up inspiration. This blog has always been a hybrid. It’s partly about traditional marriage, femininity, and gender roles. But it’s also a diary of my life as a wife and mother. In addition to my work as a homemaker, I write poetry, nonfiction, and short scifi/horror stories. I also paint, practice photography, and do art of all kinds. This blog documents some of that too, although I have a separate poetry blog, and I’m working on a visual art blog. I don’t want to overwhelm readers who are here to read about submission or homemaking with surreal poetry or abstract art. If I gather up the courage, I will post the link to each on this blog so that you can read my other blogs if you wish.
Sometimes, though, I wish I could keep everything under one umbrella. All of this – submission, homemaking, writing, art, photography, studying – is part of my daily life. It all connects! Who I am as a woman affects my creativity. What I learn informs my mothering and my conversations with my husband. My femininity informs most of my work on some level. But would anyone read a sweet little blog that covered so much?
Blogging gives me an outlet and a way to connect with the world. Almost any opportunity to be creative is a source of joy for me, and I love how I can use themes and banners and quotes to customize my blog and make it look how I want. It’s a room of my own, online, and as Virginia Woolf told us, a woman needs money and a room of her own if she is to write. But how focused does a blog need to be? Is it too unfocused already? I’m torn between doing what I want and following common blogging advice to stick to a single niche.
Life at Home 