Recently, my son said that they were being taught in school about websites, domain, blogging and there was a mention of GoDaddy website. Then the teacher asked if any of their parents were bloggers and that’s when my son said he raised his hand happily. Ever since he told me about this, I have been trying hard to revive my identity as a blogger.

There is something so very satisfying about being able to turn your thoughts into words. Oh and in times of crisis or confusions, it’s therapeutic too when you write it all down.

Talking about words, recently I started playing with my children some word unscrambling/forming game on the mobile and I can’t tell you how much I have been enjoying turning random letters into words.

Coming to the blog itself, the first thing that I did was to sort every single uncategorized post of mine into the correct categories. Everything had gotten marked as ‘uncategorized’ a few years back when I was migrating the site from one hosting provider to another and I never got around to completely recategorizing it all. It was a time consuming task to actually sort hundreds of posts. But it also helped me to reconnect with all that I enjoyed and also reminded me of some of my preferences and the reasoning behind some of my choices.

In this age where everything is considered to be aided by AI even if one puts in the time and effort to actually create something, I am yet to explore the AI aspect for designing templates for posts or managing the layout of the website. I continue to have a basic, old theme. This is where my next focus will be.

In this age of shorts and reels, the questions I ask myself is who will have the patience to read someone else’s thoughts & experiences when they can actually watch and hear others. Would you prefer to a watch a GRWM vlog or read a 500+ words post on my prep for a trip?

I also tell myself that this blog has continued to exist during the last decade despite no one reading it, only because I wanted my writings to exist in its own space.

Let’s see if I post here regularly or whether like the umpteen times I keep repeating here, this will also turn out to be a one-off post.