Nine months without blogging. I honestly wasn’t sure I would return to this format. Blogging is a format whose day seems to have passed. And yet…
…and yet I find myself wanting to share thoughts, opinions, observations, and musings in more than 240 character blocks. I keep a paper journal, but occasionally, I want to share something with others. (That’s where you all come in)
So why move the blog (or really, start it fresh) on cummingswrites.com? Datanode is and will always be my first footstep into the digital. But as I grew and developed over time, what I wanted to get out of a blog, and what I needed to share online, changed. In the early days of datanode, the blog was about OpenSource and tech. As I got older, though, I found that I like to separate the tech part of my life – the day-to-day job, the digital prison I have built for myself – from the creative part of my life. The blog is an extension of that creative side.
I originally created cummingswrites.com as a venue for my self-publishing efforts. That fell through, in no small part because my writing wasn’t as ready as I thought it was. But books, both reading them and writing them, remain a passion of mine. And so it makes the most sense that if I am going to return to blogging, I should do that on the domain I own that is all about writing.
I make no promises on the content of this reborn site. There is no guarantee on the frequency of posts, the content, or how much will be of interest. This is a blog, after all. It’s here as a place for me to share those things that I don’t think can be confined to my paper journals, that are too long for a social media missive.
So, welcome back! For the first time!