My home on the open web.

Blogging about blogging. Again.

Hello again. As you might have noticed, the blog has had a revamp. It’s a new theme (WordPress 2025) and a streamlined presence. It’s part of my summer project on digital sustainability (I’ve blogged about this in two separate posts, linked below) and part mid-year revamp.

It’s also been a good time for some blog maintenance as it’s felt a little quiet on the blogs I follow and read regularly as even bloggers need a summer holiday once in a while (not all of them, I hasten to add). Even as I write this, I can hear the (mostly) cheery chatter and laughs of the kids of my neighbourhood playing outside, running from one house to the other, making the most of their summer break.

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Anyway, the other day I was talking about things that are characteristic of who I am, and “I blog” was the first thing I said.

Blogging has been part of my life since art school, through my postgrad and PhD years, into the early years of my career, into my tenure as a CEO and now my business owner era (already 3 years going on 4! How time flies 🙂 ).

And I still love it. Quite often I wake up in the morning and think about what I’d like to blog about today. Or I compose blog posts in my head when I am out running. Or first thing in the morning when I sit down at my desk to start work.

If that sounds a little odd or too idyllic, then rest assured that I have plenty of mornings when my focus is drawn by something far more pragmatic than blogging… and yet, blogging is an extremely pragmatic activity for me.

Yes, yes, I know, I have already written about my love for blogging, for reflective writing, journalling and so forth at length, but as time (and technology) move on, I think it’s a point worth making afresh. Not only because our attention is now more valuable than ever before, but also because there are now countless ways to automate any kind of reflective activity. Just follow a prompt, or enter one, and it’s done.

I am fully aware that publishing anything on the open web nowadays is not without risks or pitfalls, and not without environmental impact either. I certainly am very intentional about what I publish nowadays. And I have always tried to be.

That said, having a blog, and more specifically, the process of blogging, remain important enough to me so that I intend to keep at it. I continue to blog, as often as I feel like it, and I have no intention of stopping.

Because for me blogging is…

• making my home on the open web.
• getting my thoughts in order.
• building an archive of my work that I own.
• weaving a narrative of my work and career.
• a way of expressing myself.
• leading by example.
• sharing what I love.
• advocating for what I stand for.
• making a small corner of the web how I like it.
• celebrating what inspires me.
• charting my experiences, both good and bad.
• a strategy to help me articulate my thoughts.
• engaging in dialogue.
• sharing my practice.
• giving back to the communities I am part of.
• paying tribute and thanks.
• documenting my professional practice and development.
• reflecting on just about everything.
• building a network.
• connecting with like minded people.

Thank you for reading. I would keep blogging even if no one read my blog, and indeed there are many posts that only me and maybe a family member have read (“Hallo, Mami! Danke, daß Du hier immer mit dabei bist!”).

I hope whatever prompts you to read blogs and (hopefully) motivates you to keep blogging yourself is still going strong. Long may we keep blogging. #4life.

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