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A Niche that isn’t…Is?

Been having a look-see around the new digs.

Algorithms have apparently picked up my not previously detected time on wordpress- so now I’m getting “tip” and ledes to articles on how to target an audience and plan a blog.

Thing is I don’t have any specific thing to write on. I have no specialized knowledge and I’m not necessarily pursuing that. I just know some stuff about some things and wonder about random things that I then want to find out about. I am sitting here watching my tele and thinking these things when—VOILA

I realize that I could probably drop a quick note on it. Why? I realize that even to blog about nothing in particular still requires a type of mental click in the brain to trigger the inclination to write. I remember, way back in the day, how I’d live my life and yet made the mental notes necessary to make fairly consistent posts. I am so out of practice in that mindset that my first series of posts just might happen in these random minutes. In fact, I even downloaded the app (GASP!) to act as a sort of notebook in my phone to maybe expand on here at a later date.

I was also thinking about the nature of blogging. This is where the train came full stop and refused to move again with my last blog. It was so hyper niche that when I no longer wanted to dwell on the topic, I no longer felt I had to say anything my very specific audience wanted to hear. How to balance life and privacy? Hum.

Anyway, to get back to the title:

So maybe my niche is simply being so broad that in and of itself is niche?

Sounds feasible.

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An Introduction… Of Sorts

Jumping back into the fray of the online world.

Once again.

For I think the third time in the last few years.

One would think that getting back into blogging would be like riding a bike, but it isn’t.

So. Why am I here?

I think about a lot of different things and I keep losing my notebooks. Or mixing up topics. I used to blog a long time ago–ancient history in the online world– about our lives as military newlyweds and building our family. It was fairly popular. I found it difficult to keep posting on increasingly personal situations and balancing the whole point of the blog- so I kind of just ghosted the entire community, before “ghosting” was actually a thing.


Anyway, I digress (full disclosure- I do that that often). “Why am I here?”, right.

Now that I am much older and we are newly retired from military life, I find myself wondering what I want to be when I grow up. Been reading and wondering what path I should go down. So why not just throw it all on the wall and see what sticks? Excerpts from the old blog may pop up here and there. I think it’d be interesting to see how I’ve progressed (or not). I study a bunch of different subjects as they interest me. I ask a lot of questions about life, my faith, my family, and the world at large.

I hate being objectively wrong, so I constantly reassess myself.

In that, I come across interesting sayings, quotes, opinions that I want to make note of but end up not.

I should probably note: I am very ADHD.

My intent here is stream of conscious. I’ll be pretty light on the editing.

I’ve named this little corner of the internet as “Bee Mill” because (rather unimaginatively) it is my home, and the “Contending Existence” part because all of these previously mentioned things have to do with learning and living. There are things we fight for and against and through to what will be real truth. I am not an expert in anything. Just another rando on the interwebz. The web addy: well its that not not BeeMill because the dot com was already taken apparently. Pretty straight-forward.