Privacy Policy

I am a lot more open online than some.
I talk about my genuine fears, dreams, trip-ups, and problems; I do not sugar-coat and I hate subtlety.

I catch a lot of flack for this.

"Why would you tell someone that?"
"Wow, I cannot imagine telling complete strangers that!"
Or, "Dang, I just came over here for that recipe, but I'm not sure I want to try it now, based on what I'm seeing from other posts on this blog!"

...really?
I'm not sharing things that I consider to be of a questionable nature, but I am sharing things from my real life. Yes, I have issues with my dad, and my parents and I fight, and I'm not sure I want children.
What does any of that have to do with trying a recipe, following my blog, or being interested in me as a human?

The latter of which, by the way, is kind of why this blog exists.

I am here to share my human experience.
The easiest way for me to do that in my verbose world is by blogging.
I mean, could you imagine how many Tweets it would take to write out just to here of this post?
Yes, I have a Twitter. I am a lot more blunt on there than I am on this blog. I definitely share my opinions there. But, I'm not bitchy about them. That doesn't mean that my Twitter is public; it was, once, and I have thought about making it public again. But, for now, during these trying times, I am not going to open it up to the general public. Not right now. Not yet. It's not that I have thin skin or anything; I can handle criticism. I just don't think that people should have unlimited access to my dirty laundry. (I mean, you can see the issues I'm having with what little bit I'm sharing on here!)
Much like my blogs, I have a photo Twitter as well. It's public -- always has been, always will be.

So, if I don't want people to have access to my dirty laundry, why do I write about personal things on my blog?

I didn't designate this as any specific kind of blog. It's not a food blog, it's not a photo blog, it's not a health-update blog. It's a place for me.
And I am a ball of random reality, with a bunch of bad days and even more good days, with some good ideas thrown in. I'm talkative and verbose and awkward and still trying to figure a lot of things out.

But you know what?

Some day I will have it all figured out.

And I hope that I can blog about it all until then, because a new generation is coming that just might be able to relate to some of the stuff I'm figuring out. And it just might help them figure it out, too.