Linnetontheleaf

I started this blog, oh so long ago now, with such high hopes! I’ve always written (both as employment and for pleasure) and hoped that blogging would open new doors for my work. But I was surprised to realize how vulnerable I felt exposing my life and feelings online. It made me question whether I was really a writer, if I wasn’t prepared to lay bare my personal secrets. Too distressed to continue, I eventually abandoned the project and resumed my hermit ways.
But helplessly, obsessively, I kept writing — it’s an addiction, a form of therapy, an outlet, a pastime, a friend. In my four decades of putting pen to paper and fingers to keys, I’ve amassed shelves full of journals, long accounts of family trips, essays, poems and song lyrics. I admit that I am powerless over the written word!
So I’m reviving this blog, with a more outward focus this time (since I found personal revelation so uncomfortable), in the hope of finding readers for the words I’m driven to write.

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