Writing and blogging is a love-hate relationship. I love to get my thoughts down on paper -- or monitor -- yet often feel I cannot express my thoughts as clearly in words. I am not going to win awards or receive praise for my eloquent and poetic flow of words and that's okay. I write to express my feelings. My writing is choppy with fragments, comma splices, run-on sentences, and a million tangents. I write how I think--hence the tangents. A million thoughts usually run around in my head at once and like a small child I can't finish one thought before I move on to the next.
I haven't blogged in months and I recently realized how much I miss it. After returning to my Dublin Over blog, I have realized how melancholy many of my posts were. Dublin is over and it's time to put it to rest. I have moved on back in California and I need to move on from Dublin Over. This may be my last post with Dublin Over.
Reading back through my blogs was very interesting. For how much I changed over the last year, I am still the same person. I am that obsessive compulsive person without the capability to keep it up. I continue to believe love lasts only if it has a foundation of friendship, honesty, and humor. I am also brave enough to admit that I am unconditionally in love with Yogi Berra. Traveling remains the main part of my life and the friendships you form when traveling is unlike any other.
I will be starting a new blog within the week and I am currently thinking of a more upbeat and suitable name. My nickname is Katshkela -- coined by my grandfather a few years ago. It's a term of endearment in Yiddish and means duckling. My new blog name will incorporate my nickname and will truly be a blog about my thoughts, love, life, and--of course--traveling.
