beginning blaugust 2025
hey friends
This is a very me thing to do, committing to a daily community blogging month - #Blaugust - when I have 60 pages (3 papers) of graduate-level academic papers to write before Aug 29th and the end of my term. Humour aside, however, there is something essential to be said for hanging onto your - why. While yes, I have been writing for school this past year, I have failed to consistently write for my own craft.
In my about page I mentioned that I have "blogged" since the late '90s (be kind to your elders), and in truth, blogging has always been the public expression of my personal writing. There is a special kind of power when you take your internal musings and try to present them coherently for a wider world of random strangers. This applies to any creative medium, in my opinion - create & then put that shit out there. I, of course, struggle to follow my own advice, as one does 🙃.
css & zen
I stripped down this site to bare minimums (get it, bear....) and it made me remember the hours I used to spend back in the late 90s, entirely tunnel-visioned into CSS, trying to make cookie-cutter static sites feel like my own. I always return to CSS when I am stressed or overwhelmed. Something about being lost in the patterns, codes, quirky glitches, and all the why-the-hell-isn't-this-working frustrations. It's no surprise then that I am back, tinkering with CSS, and trying to reclaim my words - my craft - amid the most stressful season yet.
I'm unsure what the official form these - margin notes - will take as the days go by. I know there are prompts to help inspire ideas, and I may lean on those along the way. I'm officially a week late into the endeavour, but my goal - as I'm sure it is for everyone as well - is simply to post, to share, to connect, and to discover.
I look forward to finding new voices and hidden corners of the little solo-blogging world.
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