What’s up for the next half of 2021? I’m not sure. It’s put some things into perspective and eased my heart and mind a bit. Using the way back machine (my old blogs, journals, photos, etc.) has helped me make a little sense of where I am right now. That reminds me that I need to write a post about THAT! “Top Ten Positives about the Covid Pandemic (no matter where you are on the political scale)” That will have a link next week. One more positive outcome of the Covid pandemic is that more people are accepting of my decision to stay at home, away from people. It’s taken me a long time to realize and accept that and I’m not going back. I’m happiest and most productive with fewer group activities, less social obligation.
Get a job, join a club, something.” That’s just not my style. And before you start to think, “You should actually connect with the world, Michelle. As a retired homeschool mom and housewife, it makes me feel more connected with the world. And I’m beginning to get better organized at posting. It helps me keep on track, remember what I’ve read, and connect those books with other ideas. I still enjoy writing about what I’m reading and sharing it here. I wouldn’t exactly call it a traditional book blog, but that’s the general idea. At first, I continued with the theme of “random thoughts,” but it quickly evolved itself to focus on the books I’m reading, and my thoughts and ideas connected to those books. My new blog, the selfhosted one you are reading now, was started in 2018. I’m not much of a writer but I do have somethings rolling around in my head that I’d like to get out to the world, not just in my journal.Īnd here we are over six years later and not much has changed. I think I’ll just post it here…sort of anonymously…and see where it goes. Besides, sometimes I’d rather not know if my friends and family disagree with my thinking. I use my personal Facebook page as a scrapbook and have it printed at the end of each year, so I don’t want a load of political and philosophical ramblings all through it. That’s when I started Roadrunner Musings. With all that spare time, I began to broaden my own education, reading and studying more myself, and I felt like I needed a place to share more of that journey instead of my kids’ homeschool one. My sons were growing up and moving on to their own lives, undirected by me. I posted pictures and quips instead, to document where we’d been and what we were up to.īut then something else happened. Paragraphs on Facebook were a waste of my energy. Most people these days don’t read anything more than a few words anyway. I just scrolled back through those posts and could see all the places we’d been, all the books we had read together, and the conversations we’d had.Īs the kids got older, and Facebook took the place of my blogging, I used that to communicate more often and lost interest in blogging. I enjoyed doing it and it brought me much peace of mind in those moments when I felt like we weren’t really DOING anything. It certainly was that and a great way to show friends and family what we were up to since we didn’t have school functions to go to or report cards to brag about. I’d read in a homeschool forum (you remember forums, don’t you?) that blogging was a great way to document the journey if you weren’t using a traditional curriculum of textbooks and written tests. My first was pre-social media and consisted mostly of what my kids were doing, where we went, what we were reading, etc. It wasn’t that long ago, only 2015, that I started that blog. I decided to use some of it as a post here, so I copied and pasted a few things together. I thought, “You know, I should go back to my old blog and look around, see where I’ve been.” I did, and I found something interesting. It all started when I didn’t think I’d have anything to write about today. The fascinating things you learn when you simply type a few words into an internet search engine!
#The way back machine archive#
Internet Archive Wayback Machine is just one of them.
Peabody and his boy, I found out that others are using the same words to refer to internet archiving. When I did a search for “way back machine,” looking for Mr.
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