I am sitting in the garden on this hottest day of the year. From the left, I hear weird 90ies Ibiza dance music, from the left it’s 70ies folk. In front of me is my husband and my teen discussing Macbeth vs. Darth Vader, I guess you have to be here. It’s weird but also oddly delightful.
Inspired by Susannah and Jo, I have decided to start a Substack, too. Unsurprisingly, I “met” these two women in the early heady days of blogging. I loved Susannah’s description of those days.
Back then, blogging was for me a way to combat the loneliness I felt living in the UK. Especially as a fresh mother and I found kinship in those blogs, where we shared and listened. There was often the reaction of “You too? So do I?” and it made my world a little bigger and the loneliness a little less severe.
I have missed those days recently, maybe because this post-pandemic landscape fees a bit weird and reminds a bit of the time back then in an odd inexplicable way.
Maybe because this time is so full of change like the time when I was a new mother? Maybe it’s because it feels like a chapter closed now with the “return” to “normal” after two years of pandemic. I don’t know and really it does not matter anyway. I just want to give this a go.
I am not sure what I am going to write about, but I am sure it involve some books… and other stuff.
Onward.
*waves happily*
I feel so reminiscent of my early blogging days, being here. I started my blog in 2009 and it was everything you’ve described, the community and connection with other women (it was all women on my blog roll). Are we having a renaissance of those times? Are we just caught up in middle-age nostalgia? Will anyone under 40 read what we wrote 😂 It doesn’t matter! I’m so happy to be here.