I Changed the Name
… so today I felt inclined to add the word “eclectic” to my blog title because it just seems to fit. Many aspects of my life are always in motion, never static, so I encounter a lot, with equal amounts of discovery happening on accident as on purpose. I focus on an area of interest for a time, and am then drawn elsewhere, with occasions of something out of left field walloping me up alongside the head for good measure. Those left-fielders generate an immediate and usually loud response on my part, but my other discoveries tend to lead me down fascinating paths, inspiring me to share what I’ve found.
I was recently told I was a “fluff” blogger, sharing links, topics, and thoughts on “things of little value or significance.” Thank goodness for being in my thirty-seventh year, because the comment merely gave me insight into the person who said it without immediately inspiring me to remove the person’s name from my cookie-recipient list. Yep, I choose to share recipes, story titles, and music recommendations. I document some of my family’s special moments, photograph my latest attempts at home decor, and complain about my daughter’s teachers. I give my two-cents’-worth about issues in teaching, early childhood education, and kindergarten teaching practices specifically, and I sort my own preferred blogroll/links/favorites by kindergarten categories. As friends, colleagues and family often read my blog, I feel like I’m sharing with like-minded and like-spirited individuals, with those new readers who stumble across this blog free-as-always to either bookmark me or travel off in some other direction.
In my three-dimensional daily life, I’m all about sorting and classifying, “organizing.” The coffee mugs are in the cabinet above the coffee pot, the spice cabinet and side dish mixes in the cabinetry above the stove. All of my scrapbooking materials are in their own pouches which can be found in one cabinet. Magazines are kept in baskets in the living room and bedroom, yarn, crochet hooks and finished baby afghans on one shelf in the hall closet. When I’m done using the “autumn” candlesticks on the table, they’re put back in a cabinet with all of the OTHER candlesticks, and the winter votives come out for the season.
In Blogland however, I’ve found I don’t stay on topic for this particular blog site, Edublogs, and maybe that’s where the fluff comment originates. Many educators I’ve encountered online either have or contribute to several blogs, each with its own topic. I first started blogging on MySpace, then thought I’d spread my wings a bit by moving over to Blogger. As time passed, I was asked to contribute to In Practice here on Edublogs, and just found it easier to write “for them and for me” at one location. Friends, family and other readers have their own blog site preferences, so I tend to publish the same blog entry on all three sites (I know, redundant, redundant, redundant) to accomodate them all. I promise, sometime in the future, I’ll choose just one or two sites, really!
Until then, perhaps it’s best to describe any of my blog submissions as eclectic offerings shared in the spirit of educational collegiality. My colleagues? Anyone out there living LIFE, wanting to share information, resources, and ideas about whatever subject interests us!
As for the critic(s),
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