Learning to Paddle – Metaphorically

Funny, I thought the hardest part of starting this blog would be the writing. Or maybe getting over the fear of actually posting the thoughts that normally land safely in my Notes app, never to see the light of day.

Turns out, the hardest part is building a website.

I am not a technology girl. Like everyone else my age, I grew up with a mouse in my hand and an innate sense for the mystery of average computer usage, but I am beginning to fear that my powers may be limited to a series of well-decorated Webkinz rooms in childhood and school-mandated PowerPoints.

This blog is intended to be very real, very ~authentic~, and so I will begin with Real-Life Struggle Number 1: I don’t know how to build a website.

So please forgive me as I figure this out. I expect it to be a mess.

I am having the sensation of paddling away from shore at a leisurely pace, only to discover that the tide has swept me much farther away than I meant to go, and now I am facing the fact that my scrawny arms are the only hope I have of making it to my destination.

Well Reader, imagine my arms to be paddling away, because I am determined to do this. And although I have absolutely no idea what I am doing or where to go from here, I refuse to be lost downstream.

Before we all know it, my arms are going to be so much stronger, and I am going to be a website-building genius (or at least competent enough at using my very low-end subscription to WordPress to create a blog that I don’t find unbearably embarrassing).

Wish me luck, and keep exploring the page. Who knows what else I might accomplish?