Sleep Tight, Little Bloggie

Remember Diaryland? Remember how solipsistic blogs used to be? Remember what solipsistic means? I can say "yes" to all three (thank you David Bowie!)

Diaryland was one of the first "web logs" that was accessible the general public. A few clickity-clickities, and you had a "blog." Most of us used it to post half-assed ramblings about how we were slouching towards adulthood. "Social media" was also moving in the same direction. Now we are all more mature.

Blogs have ripened into real places for robust and often righteous commentary. With Tumblr and its brethren we can post all the crapola we've ironically scanned. Twitter has evolved from the pointless chatter we thought it would be into a digital megaphone. And Facebook lets us keep up with our high school friends. Bless you, Facebook!

I created Lady Heathen Soul to help me work out my feelings about spirituality and culture. It often veered way off that path, but that was the intention. Since then, I have used this blogging format to create a site that highlights my freelance writing skills and experiences. I have also, as part of my work on my novels, created a blog for the fiction writer part of me. This blog, called simply Care Morency, will now be my main blog outlet. While it will focus on writing and books, I promise it will not be solely about those topics.

Lady Heathen Soul will join our Diaryland forebearers and exist somewhere on a server farm. Its spirit will be transferred, quietly and invisibly, like cybercash on Paypal, to Care Morency. It's been fun writing this history of the online world, but there is much more to come.