TO BLOG OR NOT TO BLOG, THAT IS MY QUESTION by Brenda Whiteside

I’ve been floundering for the past year with my personal blog. The blog is called Discover Yourself. My intentions have always been to not only share what’s going on in my writing life, but to post about life in general from my perspective. I have Muse Monday, Wicked Wednesday, Trippin’ Thursday, and Fearless Friday. The problem started when we stopped farming.

The Farmer

For over three years, Thursday was known as Tortuga Thursday. We named our little farm, Tortuga Flats. From 2012 until sometime in 2015, I shared our adventures based on the following: 

In 2012, on the plains of Northern Arizona, two families joined forces and began the trials and tribulations of building a small family farm with nothing in the bank but love. 

Me...ready to battle the weeds.

The farm gave me plenty of fodder for blogging. I developed a following. But when the farmer (our son) left the farm, the experiment ended, and we sold the property. I changed Tortuga Thursday to Trippin’ Thursday. And I’ve kind of fallen flat on my creative juices with it. 

My husband and I decided to live in the RV when the farm sold in one day, and we had no clear plans for the next move. I borrowed a term from our younger days—trippin’. 

In everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose...in our latest season, with only a vague plan and a touch of creativity, we're off on another adventure. Half of this twosome is retired; my half will probably never know what that means. I promise to share. 

But once I logged on about the RV and have thrown some tips out there about how to live frugally, I just can’t get the real crux of what I should do with my Thursday post. We don’t move the RV around, especially since we now own a much bigger unit. There’s a whole lot less going on at the RV Ranch with just the two of us than there was with the farm experiment. 

I’ve toyed with getting really gritty with what life is like at this point in time: grown children, grandchildren, aging parent, political strife within the family, changing habits in the later years of marriage, and on and on. But there’re a few people in my family who actually like their privacy. Jeez. Do you think changing the names would help?

What would you like to read from an author that isn’t about writing? If you followed Tortuga Thursday, what do you see as an interesting direction to take? I’m open for any and all suggestions.

Brenda's personal blog, Discover Yourself:
http://brendawhiteside.blogspot.com/