Dead Seriously.

Please pardon the seemingly endless starting-up sort of posts; it’s taking me some time to figure what is going on. While my decision to start posting here again was actually a long, thought-out decision, it was based almost entirely on the simple idea that I just wanted my old blog back, and not based on any actual conceptualization of how I would go about writing here again. More specifically, the principle reason I shut it down in the first place is still relevant: too little time and too many other responsibilities. So I need to make it clear to myself why exactly I am doing this, or at least what this re-opening is not supposed to imply. In no particular order…

1. This may be my home address, but it is not my principle place of residence. I have loved blogging at By Common Consent and have no intention of cutting back contributions there to post them here instead. In other words, the two are largely orthogonal to each other in subject matter, intended audience (recall: this blog is about me), and tone. I suppose it is possible that I might re-post something here I write for BCC at some point, but the reverse is unlikely to ever happen.

2. I will probably not post here as often as I once did. There were times last year when I would post nearly every day, and that is just not possible given life’s other constraints. In addition, moving to WordPress kind of screwed up all the old links and things, so I will be spending at least some time fixing old stuff and doing other housecleaning for a season.

3. I welcome guest authors. This was something that I started to get into right before shutting DS down last Spring, and I hope to see more of that.

4. Mormon blogger or blogger who is Mormon? Play it by ear, I guess. When I first started this blog, I was definitely the latter, but eventually became the former as time went on. While it would be convenient (and perhaps desirable to some!) to make it not-Mormon, as “that sort of thing” could be saved strictly for BCC, the fact is that many of my LDS-themed posts in the past are no more appropriate for BCC than they would be on a secular-oriented blog.

5. Political themes have started to bore me. I am still a libertarian (though I have learned in the past several months at BCC that stating as much in Mormon intellectual circles is cause for immediate mockery. Yay!), and still care very much about particular issues, but if I was dispassionate about political processes a year ago (I was), then I am passionately apathetic toward them now. Mostly, I just hate arguing with people about it.

6. I like sports.

Others to appear as they come to mind…