Brave Little Thing

Katie posed with the beloved toaster oven, “The Brave Little Toaster”

Today I am doing a brave little thing. I would like to welcome you to my blog! Huzzah!

I have tried vlogging/blogging before and have failed. That’s great! With this failure has come a lot of learning. I learned that Substack isn’t the platform for me. That TikTok doesn’t quite fit and Instagram feels more like shopping than connecting with other people. Don’t get me wrong, I love to connect with other people. In fact, I’d say it’s one of my favorite things to do. Yet, social media really doesn’t promote social connections. It promotes distraction, brain fog, and less than ideal feelings.

What I’ve learned from my haphazard internet relationship is this: I don’t like the pressure of creating in front of people. I don’t like the feeling that in order to create I also need to play some kind of weird game where I’m logging on simply to push out my every thought. I don’t like the feeling of getting caught in a scroll loop when I simply want to upload a photo of a bird. I have lived a life already spent in front of screens and doing to much of this doesn’t lend itself to feeling alive or excited about making any sort of art.

So in a commitment to myself, I’ll be doing a lot of writing, photographing, and drawing offline and then sharing it here on a regular basis. It feels nice to have your own cozy little corner of the internet. Where I can experiment on my terms with creativity. Today, I won’t be defining what I’m interested in or telling you what you can expect from this blog if you come across it. I myself do not know what shape this will take. However, it’s worth while to do something today that makes me feel more alive and aligned with the work I’d like to do. This is the start.

And to raise the stakes because my birthday is coming up and why the hell not - I’m challenging myself to write for 100 days. Cheers to you and to day one!