One day I’m going to write a post for new bloggers called “If I knew then what I know now” and in it I’m going to write about picking your blog title and url and I’m going to explain the difference between self-hosting vs. free blog sites, etc.  Basically all the stuff I wish I had known in May when I started blogging on wordpress.com.  Honestly, it may just be a collection of links to other bloggers that I’ve used over the past month to help me get started (and not lose my mind).

Since May, I’ve moved from my original location and I’m about to move again. This time, (hopefully) permanently.

I recently acted on a decision that I made weeks (months?) ago to buy a couple of domain names and self-host my blog. And I’ve started another blog, to showcase my professional writing. I’ve been working on them like a crazy person, with mixed results.

I was going to take the month off, get everything situated and announce the grand opening in Feburary, but I miss writing and I just want to inform everyone of what is happening. Rather than drop off the face of the earth.

So.

Life in the Middle Lane can be found here and my professional blog can be found here and they are both raw and unfinished, but I hope that everyone stays with me (and bears with me) as I figure this all out.

Setting up these new sites has not been as easy as I thought it would be.  In some cases it reminds me of that old saying, “what can go wrong will” ’cause I’ve ran into all kinds of problems over the past few weeks.

But all is not lost, I’m learning so much. And bottom line, I am STILL posting.  So check me out. Subscribe and all that good stuff.