Introductions and Explanations

Hey friends!

I've been thinking about starting a blog for awhile now, and a few of my favorite people have encouraged the notion, so here we are. Right now, my tendency is to share a lot of my thoughts and feelings on Facebook, which is a great outlet but isn't quite suited to my goals. I want to be able to save my posts and find them again later. I want to reach the audience that wants and needs to see those posts. I want to write longer format posts without getting lost in the noise of a Facebook newsfeed.

So here we are! This blog is still in its early stages, and I know it's a little messy. I'm hoping to clean it up and increase its functionality as I understand Blogger a little better and figure out what my dreams and goals for the blog really are. I hope you'll stick around through that.

What you'll find so far is about a year and a half's worth of the things I posted on Facebook that I considered worthy of archiving. All of my posts are tagged according to content, and they can be separated by those tags over in the labels tab on the sidebar. There are a lot of topics and overlap, so it should be a fun and messy experience. Moving forward I'll be writing things here and then probably sharing excerpts over on Facebook to get the interested people in the right place. I've also got everything set up so you can subscribe directly to the blog by email. That way you'll get all of my rants and ramblings directly in your inbox.

This blog will cover a wide range of things because I care about a wide range of things. A lot of the posts so far are about mental health awareness, advocacy, treatment, and struggles. It seems appropriate to get this kicked off in the middle of Mental Health Awareness Month. I'll no doubt continue that trend, but there are several other topics that are likely to come up. The recipe, subject to changing at any moment, will be this: a healthy dose of polyamory and non-monogamy, sexuality, and gender; a dash of politics; a smattering of important personal events; and definitely more than you bargained for feelings about my partners and polyweb.

I'm looking forward to seeing where this little project will go, and I hope you are too.