This blog began it’s life as a newspaper column, under the same name, published in The Wire Newspaper between 2002 and 2003.
When the Wire folded, and my column space became subsumed in the move, I actually went into a devilish bout of writer’s block.
It wasn’t until Keefs told me about journalspace (that was), and I registered for and created an electronic version of the goddess room that I began to write again.
For me the major difference was that this was a space I controlled, and I wasn’t subject to kinds of controls that being a journalist in a corporate newspaper environment is apt to do.
I was free to say anything I liked, and not care about much more than making sure the writing flowed and the post was of interest or value to the people who read, but more importantly, that they were of value to me. I express my deepest fears, my triumphs, my stresses, disappointments and my considered opinion here. You’re getting a lot of me here at my best and my worst.
This is both a personal and public space. Personal in that, if you have the courage to wade through the couple thousand posts I’ve generated in the last 10 years of writing this column/blog, you will find both deeply personal writings, as well as scores of resources and links.
the goddess room, in it’s now seven year existence, has gone from punchy 500 and 600 pieces in confined bounding boxes in print, to an often wild and furry, soft and salty sweet, sword chop, record and repository of my life, observations and experiences.
Journalspace.com–a site I was both an active part of the community around the blogs, but I also later provided tech support, templates and other miscellaneous help to the user base–died in 2009. I had registered a handful of domains related to me and this blog, and so as a code monkey, I launched into the task of migrating what was then six years of posts into the space you’re trawling through right now.
It was not fun.
Late in 2011 I became tired of Joomla’s quirks and decided to migrate to Worpdress fully. I’m currently running WordPress 3.0+ on this site and I’m quite glad… loving WordPress.
This site is still a blog at heart, but it’s a full robust site that is the central point for my online presence. In a nutshell, that’s what you can find here: A writer and journalist, writing personally or reporting on the things she cares about. Unapologetically.
Bless.
(Updated: September 11, 2012)