A Blogger’s Progress

Between Blogger and WordPress, I now have a total of 26 blogs. Part of me wants one continuous journal of everything all in one place — like my old handwritten journals, which I shredded in 2001. But another part of me wants separate repositories for separate mindsets or different functions. Several of my blogs are functional, historic, fixed, or orderly rather than bloggish (by which I mean free-form and in present time): NATURALIST’S JOURNAL, GALE LAWRENCE, BIRDATHONS, BIRD TREKS, BIRDS AFIELD, TOM’S BIRDS, FACTOIDS, PROGRESS REPORTS, NEXTBOOK, BOOKALIKE, NATURALIST’S ARCHIVE, NATURALIST’S CALENDAR— plus my old Blogger blogs: NATURALIST’S ALMANAC, ABOUT NATURALIST’S ALMANAC, ABOUT LIBBY’S ILLUSTRATIONS, NATURALIST’S BOOK OF DAYS, HUB’S BOOK, COMMONPLACE, BIRD NOTES, PLANT NOTES, and WEBLIOGRAPHY.

Others of my blogs are more exploratory: my old Blogger HOMEWORK FOR A VISION, and my WordPress MY PROGRESS, MY QUESTIONS, CHI AND ME, and CYBER DUMP. I really don’t know which ones to keep and which ones to retire. Maybe I should start a WordPress version of HOMEWORK FOR A VISION and consolidate all my exploratory writings there? But I think I still need a DUMP — an instant repository for all the stuff I just want to get out of my system at any given moment: no rules, no constraints, a huge and nonjudgmental place to fume and vent and exorcise.