Since I wrote the last post a couple of hours ago, I’ve been thinking about my blogs. When I started each one I had a vision for it and a dream of what I wanted it to be.
Step Away from the Cake was my first and is still dearest to my heart. I started this one almost 4 years ago as I was beginning my running/triathlon journey. I had kept workout logs and diet journals for years and just decided to take it to the internet. This blog I started writing what was in my mind and in my life regarding health and fitness. I had no other goals than to write these things down. I wrote whatever I wanted to and never thought about someone reading it. I still write that way.
Flo’s Place was started a little over a year ago because I realized I had lots of things to say about lots of things that weren’t necessarily health and fitness related. Since most of the readers of Cake are runners or triathletes I decided to open another forum to write about the other stuff on.
The Ones Who Get Screwed is a newer blog that I started when I got really pissed off one day at the political system. This blog has been languishing lately and I know why but I’m not sure I’m going to fix it.
Feather, Fur, and Fins is the latest blog and I started that so I had a place to write about my pets and animals in general. It’s one of my favorites because I love talking about my animals.
What has happened is that for Flo’s Place and Screwed I put too much thought into the posts. I consider what I’m writing and how I’m writing it. I censor myself because I don’t want to get too controversial or piss people off. As a result I look back on some of the posts I’ve written and they sound stiff and awkward to me, I can just imagine how they read. I would see other blogs and see things they were doing and think, oh, I should do that, and then try to do it on my blogs. Well, I’ve decided that crap has to stop. The posts I get the most comments on, on all blogs, are the posts where I’m most honest. I really believe honesty and passion come through in blogging. If I’m trying to make a post that people will respond to, it never works. But every time I write from my heart I get responses.
So starting right here and right now there will be no holds barred posting. I will write about anything I feel passionate about at the moment. I will write about things that interest me and that I have opinions about. I fully expect to piss people off and for people to think I’m an idiot and I don’t have a problem with that. I’m tired of trying to be someone I’m not and to write things I don’t care about. So you can expect to see a variety of topics covered here, everything from cooking to politics. I’m not going to hold back though I will try to keep the topics to the appropriate blogs. Cake will be health and fitness, Screwed will be politics, and Feather will be animals. That leaves all the other categories for this blog. So don’t be surprised if you see a post on cattle supplies, we are planning on buying some acreage in Colorado after all 
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I’m pretty careful about what I post too. Sometimes I’m more brave than others! I won’t put people down, or criticize, or vent about people on my blog. I’ll do that in private. I will only say encouraging good things about people on my blogs.
Unless, of course, I feel a moral responsibility to say something, like when that poor flyball dog was being slammed against the wall!
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