A fresh start
I’ve been blogging since 2005 as Stuntmother over at Blogger. It was a wonderful time, all that writing and bonding and anecdotal parenting stuff — and then it seemed to fizzle out. I started I Do All My Own Stunts when Ed was away traveling for his PhD for weeks on end, and when barely a day went by when I didn’t feel as if I’d averted some spectacular parenting disaster by the skin of my stuntmothering teeth — and when disasters struck on the rest of the days. In those days, I was mothering two young children pretty much full time, and what emerged was a blog primarily about identity, motherhood, parenting and children. With some knitting thrown in.
Then the children grew a little older, Ed stopped being a student, we moved and I realized that I needed to identify as ‘mother’ like I needed a hole in the head. What I needed was to find out where the non-mother, non-wife I had got to in what had become my life.
I needed a fresh start (a fresh hell, as Dorothy Parker once said). This is it.
Hey I’m glad you switched to wordpress. That alone makes me happy. But this is fun and I’m excited for your fresh hell (start).
Yay! Glad you’re back, and love the new look and the new identity. Will bookmark immediately.
I’m happy to see you back. Wishing you all the best in your new incarnation.
yippee!
WELCOME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I’m with Donleigh, wordpress is da bomb.
an auspicious day to begin something new! Yer old boy over here celebrated four decades today, just for the record. Fresh start. Excellent.
Hi there, former Stuntmother. It took me a second to figure out your new identity.