..than I was four years ago.
Four years ago this week, I was in Camden, Maine, for the PopTech conference. It’s there that I discovered the then relatively new phenomenon of “blogging,” and downloaded MovableType (after following a link to it from Howard Rheingold’s Smart Mobs site). Upon my return to Rochester—on October 22nd, 2002—I created mamamusings and wrote my first post.
Since then, this blog has brought me so much, personally and professionally.
It’s taken me to Joi Ito’s house in Tokyo, and to a conference podium at the Burj-Al-Arab Hotel in Dubai. It’s helped me find long-lost relatives in Brazil, and provided a living, lasting memorial to my late ex-husband.
It’s allowed me to write about issues that matter deeply to me—like depression and recovery—in a way that I know has helped others.
I’ve made more new friends than I could begin to name here, and made more professional connections in the past four years than in my entire career before the blog.
So happy birthday, mamamusings. And here’s to four more years (at least) of personal and professional growth through blogging.
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