MJ’s New Blog: Yes, there will be letters.

So, I have decided to reinitiate blogs. Some of you read my blog that I had on myspace. I had a blog here last year that I told no one about. I deleted all the entries, though I saved most of them in a word file. I lost the best one, which was a vitriolic letter to our air conditioning. Really, it was most excellent. Mostly, writing to an audience I didn’t know was weird. So, I hope some of you are those who followed my myspace blog.

I plan to chronicle many things on this blog, but chiefly my family’s move towards sustainability and ecological living. Greenness. All that good stuff. I am well aware of how trendy this is now and that it is a cash cow. My goal with this blog is to keep myself honest, to pay attention to my buying decisions, parenting decisions, wifely decisions, and general life decisions from a sort of holistic perspective. I want to move OFF the grid. I want a sustainable life. So far we sprout, make our own bread pretty often, cook from scratch mostly, and make our own yogurt. There’s a long way to go. We are also vegetarian, moving towards vegan in fits and starts. We buy locally as much as possible and are trying to grow stuff ourselves.

I guess I have a goal for my life, our life, in mind that is sort of hard to describe, that I’m not sure I can paint. It includes–but is not limited to–the commune idea we have talked at length about with Q and TF (husband’s sister and her wife).

You might want to know that I won’t talk about work on here, except in the most vague terms. The nature of my job is such that confidentiality is paramount and I would never want to threaten the vitality and integrity of what I do. I’ll vent, no doubt, and complain but I won’t give details. Also, I won’t disclose my real name or my family’s names. This is a public space and I am well-aware of the risks of writing about my life. I don’t work for the CIA, for the record. I will talk about some private things, for sure, but some of the things I blogged about on myspace just aren’t germaine to this public space. I’m trying to get better about wearing my heart on my sleeve, so I’ll try not to be too over-the-top too.

In my last blog, I swore a lot, bitched a lot, and wrote in all lowercase. I’m going to try to use better grammar and punctuation and capitalize. I’ll try to complain and swear less, but I doubt I’ll do a very good job of that. Mostly, I have a sailor mouth.

So, onward.

Tags: ecology, introduction, why blog