As I have sat here reviewing old posts, cleaning up categories and giving this site some overdue TLC I have the following observations.

I started this blog just before 9/11. That was also the time when I started joining online communities (Facebook wasn’t yet the thing it is today.) Interesting to revisit some of what was going on in my own head and how I was dealing with what I was finding online from folks responding in their own ways.

I’m sad how things that really struck me then have become so much more common-place now. Humanity remains on a downward spiral.

I wrote a lot about boys, and usually the negative.

The further back I go, the less I recognize my own voice in these posts. Reading things I wrote over a decade ago… It would seem I was (am?) one of those dudebros on the internet I so abhor whenever I see them. Which might make me slightly more forgiving. I was young and dumb once.

Age and wisdom. Who knew. When I read this post in 20 years I’ll have to resist the urge to delete it like I’ve wanted to delete so much from here already.

But there’s a private-option for a reason. Further, in August of 2001 I set myself a goal of making this blog a window into which I could learn about myself. I have succeeded. It should not have come to surprise me how little I would regard the me who was half my current life-span ago.