EDIT: 18 JULY 2022
This post was originally published on 6 March 2019
Hello and welcome to Lee’s Scribbling. I shift yet again—from being a wife on the Texas bayous to a divorcée on the coast to a nomad in a travel trailer, for now. I feel certain that nomadism will end before the year is out but, until then, please follow along as Sam helps me sort through a lifetime of self-effacement and look to a future of personhood.
Of course, the first and most important thing to note, as I have written here, is that I have chosen to be called by my middle name and to eschew both my first name and the nickname my ex-husband gave me. If you know me and are comfortable with either of the latter, I am not requesting you change how you address me personally. I am merely stating that “Lee” is preferred.
If you know this blog, you should know I had a separate beach blog. Over the coming weeks, my posts about Surfside Beach, TX will be “migrated” here under a different menu. However, like the rest of the blog, it is my intent to incorporate them in a way that is not always location specific. I believed I would spend the rest of my days in Surfside. I was mistaken. It is time to accept that life for me isn’t in any way predictable and that I cannot limit my blog to any one location.
As my world has become so variable with spotty connections and deep dives into self-healing, trying to keep up with the structure and organization of my two blogs has been challenging at best. Just the migration of my main site took longer than it should have because of my mental acuity (lack thereof). Here we are, finally, and I hope that this iteration will be more enduring and more coherent. It is, however, a process, and pulling the two blogs together will take time.
Finally, this blog is a bit of a shotgun approach to my life. I have read that this is not how to get blog fans; that one should limit a blog to a focused topic. Well, honestly, I’m not writing for an audience. I’m writing for myself. This approach necessitates a layout that allows for more targeted reading. If you want to avoid my blathering about my dogs then you can click on one of the other categories. If you want to only read about them—well, you get the idea.
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