When I started blogging, it was to record my thoughts about teaching. I moved the blog around a bit in the process, from a hosted site at Edublogs to a personal domain and, finally, to its current address. Along the way, I also left classroom teaching and, in the process, my blog lost some of its focus.
It’s been nearly two years now since I stopped teaching full time. I still stay connected in a few ways, and my current job still focuses on education, though now geared toward business professionals. However, my work, reading, and interests have shifted from a nearly-exclusive focus on education to a broader perspective that includes writing, genre, and folklore.
From this point forward, I expect to be writing more about the world of writing (technique, legal and technological concerns, publishing, etc.), genre (with an emphasis on “dark fantasy” and its purer cousins), and folklore (a general term that I use to cover religion, philosophy, urban legends, and the like). I’ll also post randomly about politics, photography, or other things, all of which I’ll keep in the “Asides” category. If you have an interest in only one of these categories, you can use the category feed for each to subscribe only to posts in that category. If you’d be happy to receive the mix, grab the main RSS feed. (Visit the “Subscribe” page for all the options.)
I’ve also started to use Twitter (no promises there), and will be organizing my research on Delicious and Zotero (neither of which are up-to-date as of this post, but I’m working on it). Feel free to look me up there or on any of the services listed in the sidebar.
I know I’ve lost a number of readers through the dry spell and the changes, but I hope to discover some new voices and to re-connect with others with a renewed focus and more regular posting schedule.
April 13th, 2009 at 7:35 am
It’s hard to beat “regular”. If you know what I mean…:).
April 13th, 2009 at 8:50 am
I knew I could depend on you, Shawn … a real regular around these parts. (Did you catch all those!)