I feel like lately I haven’t been writing as much, and when I have been it’s been sort of off topic. (I went back to some of my archives and I feel like my writing has changed, not for the worse, but the recent posts have been a bit superficial.) But I do intend to get back on track here shortly. Around the New Year I was out of the country, and then I had a month or two consumed with my migration from Blogger to WordPress, and in typical fashion, I got caught up quite a bit in the details, and even making some cosmetic changes to the site which I’m happy with, but where probably unnecessary.<\/p>\n
Then more recently I’ve had some of my attention diverted with trying to network a bit. After a year or two of writing for just myself and few people, I realized that if I want to get any sort of real audience (no offense to the few of you who’ve been loyal followers \ud83d\ude42 ) I’d need to step it up in the networking department. I’ve been a bit more active on Twitter<\/a>, and just recently (sort of hesitantly) started a page on Facebook<\/a>, though I now suspect Facebook may be more helpful than Twitter. Twitter seems to be easier to connect with people, but it also seems to be a bit of a more narcissistic crowd, people who follow just to get followers, and who just ramble a stream of consciousness with no real intention of visiting me or my website. But who knows, I may change my mind again. But now that I’ve created my Facebook page I think it may be helpful … if I can attract a loyal crowd there. I’ve also been a bit more proactive about commenting on other similar blogs, where as before I used to just read and go on my way.<\/p>\n As I mentioned, I’ve been at this site with differing amounts of intensity over the past year or two, and about six months ago I realized that if I want to monetize it, I need something more than articles and introspective posts. I realized that my career won’t be made as a blogger. So I’ve been working on an eCommerce portion of the site as well, and it’s taking longer than I hoped (probably my detail oriented side kicking in, making me do extra work), but I do plan on bringing that online soon. And with that I’ll need to start marketing it agressively, so that will take up some time.<\/p>\n But I do plan to get back to writing about the core things that this site is about: sustainability, health, travel, getting outside, and adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n Even though I’ve been I’ve been catching up on my writing (two Thailand<\/a> posts<\/a>, last year’s Mammoth trip<\/a>), I still<\/i> have a lot of catch up writing to do (my 400 mile cycling trip, the rest of my Thailand trip) and have a few new articles I want to write as well (diet related, the economy, career burnout). <\/p>\n Oh yea, and that work thing I’ve got going on every day too.<\/p>\n How about you? Are you staying on track? And also, thanks for reading. I appreciate having you along with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I feel like lately I haven’t been writing as much, and when I have been it’s been sort of off topic. (I went back to some of my archives and I feel like my writing has changed, not for the worse, but the recent posts have been a bit superficial.) But I do intend to get back on track here shortly. Around the New Year I was out of the country, and then I had a month or two consumed with my migration from Blogger to WordPress, and in typical fashion, I got caught up quite a bit in the details, and even making some cosmetic changes to the site which I’m happy with, but where probably unnecessary.<\/p>\n Then more recently I’ve had some of my attention diverted with trying to network a bit. After a year or two of writing for just myself and few people, I realized that if […]<\/p>\n