I’m back

Is it just me?!

I’ve been at this for hours and all I have to show for myself are a few selfies, a rudimentary template for my new website and a bunch of disjointed bits of text. Is it just me? It might be… because time and again, I’ve had to ask my 18-year-old son for help. The kid meanders over, slides the arrow around, taps here and there and says, “oh, just do this.” Meanwhile, I’m in a sweat from trying to find the stupid edit icon or whatever other icon I don’t know I’m searching for and I’m near ready to pull my hair out.

Augh!!!

Deep slow yoga breath.

This will be my third time to have a website. But my first time to try to make it myself. So if anyone has any advice or tips on what to improve or how, I’m all ears.

My past 6 years have been rather disjointed. A move from NYC to Charlotte in 2015. Then another move from Charlotte to LA in 2020. Before each move, I closed out whatever creative endeavor I’d been pursuing to give myself time and space to execute the actual move, settle my family and start afresh. It’s the practical thing to do. Especially since I’m no good at being creative when I’m in the midst of home renovations, unpacking boxes and figuring out all the logistics of a new town. But it sure does kill all the momentum and continuity each time I start all over again.

But there is an upside to it all. Because each time I reset, I get to ask myself, who do I want to be this time around? And then I get to reinvent myself a little bit. So that’s where I am tonight. Got some ideas and a few leads. It’s slow going and frustrating. Lots of starts and stops with far too many technical glitches (which my son says aren’t really glitches because my not knowing how something works doesn’t make it a glitch). But at least I have a rough plan to pursue, an outline for this website, a couple of decent selfies and now I’ve written this post. So dammit good for me! I’m back.