Blogging vs Journaling
I was thinking in the shower tonight....as I usually do...it's really the only place I ever have my "deep thougths"....about my "blogging". I started keeping an online diary/journal in the summer of 2000 at freeopendiary.com. Several of my online friends started writing there, so I did, too. It was a way of documenting what was going on in my life at the time...as a married woman, a mother of 3 young children (Trey was 6 1/2, Matt had just turned 2 and Molly was about to be 1.) My marriage was about to come to an end, or at least it was the beginning of the end, and I needed friends and support, and I needed a place to vent and express myself. I didn't have any "real life friends" to talk to. I was new to the internet, involved in a chatroom, and meeting lots of new people there. We had a pretty tight group there for several years. I wrote about the kids, I wrote about my husband, I wrote about the separations, and new people entering my life. Wh...