I first wrote and posted this entry on my other, just-for-fun blog a few minutes ago. (Didn't know I even had that blog? Yeah, I didn't really remember much either, since I hadn't written anything on it much in the last 2 years. So you definitely weren't missing anything.) But in case any of you CCW readers did keep an eye on it at one time, I wanted to publish this post here too, edited a bit for context to make sense.I rarely write on my Crash Course Widow blog these days…and I post anything on my "just for fun" blog radically less. Aside from the flurry of photo-driven entries that I posted on my fluff blog over 2 days or so in July, I posted all of 3 times on it in 2010. Oops. It didn't help matters that any photos I might have posted there in that first year when I started the blog, I posted instead on CCW.
Now back to my original post….
And then I started a separate blog for my fledgling, semiprofessional photography hobby/not-quite-a-business in August. I photographed my friends' wedding in early September, and I used that new blog and its new URL to post photos from it and the other portrait sessions I did with friends in the fall.
I made my hobby an official business* in early January this year, so I could earn some money from it, gain access to different services (like print vendors) that are reserved only for professional photographers and not the general public, and advertise my services under something other than my legal name (which would get butchered in Google because of spelling variations, plus my full name is bloody long). But it's also meant I've been pouring my photography and writing urges into my business's blog, and I've written even more seldom on my CCW blog as a result.
But lately I've been wanting to have a place to post random, fun things that have nothing to do with my photography business or grief--things that I wouldn't care if people who know me in real life read. (Or in other words, things that I didn't mind being posted to and shared with my 300+ friends on Facebook.) But because my original just-for-fun blog was tied to my Crash Course Widow Blogger profile, and thus to my CCW blog itself, I wasn't terribly comfortable with the thought of pushing a feed to Facebook with direct access to my grief blog.
Not because I'm ashamed or embarrassed of anything I've written here. Quite the contrary--it's been enormously helpful to have an outlet for
I have a few friends in real life (read: nonwidows) who continue to read my grief blog, but not many. Several of Charley's family members read it, but as far as I know, none of my family members do…or at least none of my siblings or parents, from what they've ever said or let on. It's not that my blog is a secret, though. The link to my grief blog is on my Facebook profile page and I "went public" to friends and family in December 2008, when I mentioned the blog and gave a link to it in my Christmas letter, about 8 months after I started the blog.
But I've never posted a feed from my blog to my personal Facebook account. I guess I've developed a quasi–don't-ask-don't-tell approach to being honest about 'how I'm doing' these days: if you don't ask me how I'm doing, as a widow or single mother or as a human being beyond the polite, meaningless pleasantries--or if you don't want to hear the full truth--I don't tell you much. I keep it trivial and meaningless, full of irrelevant "fluff." But if you ask and really want to know, I'll tell you almost anything. But I won't push it on people.
So…I could have started to post the frivolous, fun things to my Blogger-hosted "just for fun" blog…but I really wanted something that friends and family could read, without subjecting them to the heavy stuff. So I moved that blog to a new home. I have no idea if I'll actually end up posting anything to the "new" blog, much less more than 2 or 3 times a year. But I'll be shuttering and deleting the blog hosted on Blogger in the next few weeks or so.
And if you want to continue to follow that blog or see if I ever post anything on it, you can find it here on its new home on Wordpress.com:
http://candiwam.wordpress.com/
(And totally separately and irrelevantly, there are some things that I absolutely LOVE about Wordpress over Blogger. But man, the free Wordpress.com blogs also don't offer some of the features I like best about Blogger. Grrrr….But off to Wordpress I go…)
* And oops….I'd meant to post an "announcement" here on Crash Course Widow, but I just hadn't gotten that far yet. Or in reality, I've written a post or two and included the announcement in it, but I never published the drafts, for several reasons. Oops.
But anyhoo…I'm about two months late sharing it here, but I did it! I made my photography an official business in January, like I'd been planning and dreaming about doing starting in early May or so last year.
So…c.c. photography, llc, at your service! (If you live in the Portland, Oregon, metro area, that is. ;o))
- Home page: http://www.ccphotographypdx.com/
- Blog: http://ccphotopdx.wordpress.com/ (but I plan to be moving it to my own, self-hosted blog soon)
- Facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/ccphotographypdx
The encouragement to start my own business wouldn't have come without the support and kind words from so many of you faithful readers and fans over the years here on Crash Course Widow, so for all of you, thank you so much for sticking with me, and for reading, over the past three years! You've all brought such positive things in my life, and I'm so deeply, beyond-words thankful for you all!
(And I'd love to see you on my Facebook fan page for my business--or the new home for my "fluff," nonbusiness blog--too!)
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