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Ten Years {of Field Notes}

Ten Year Blog-iversary!  While I am turning forty years old today, my little blog is turning ten.  Ten Years.

As of today, I have been writing this little blog for ten years.  It's fair to say that a good portion of my adult life has thus far been documented in this space.  And there have been many times when I have not just wanted to write, but have needed to write this blog.  I first started writing a journal when I traveled to Europe, when I was 17.  I liked it, and the habit stuck with me.  and now, at age 40, I am glad that it did.  It is fair to say that it is not just a phase...

The constant need to both reflect and document the human experience has always appealed to the historian in me - but it has also helped illuminate what I am doing, and (more importantly) why I am doing it.  And journaling on this blog has continued to save me, and inspire me, and give me perspective.

It is no accident that Field Notes came about in the early years after the birth of our first child, Noah. As I have written many times, the birth of my children essentially gave me new life....or at the least, changed me.  Making sense of all of it was certainly the catalyst for this blog.  And I am grateful for it.

So Happy Blog-iversary Field Notes!  Thanks for the memories, and thank you dear reader, for following along.

Some of my favorite Posts to date:

- Mining The Past

- The Life of Passion

- Avery's Arrival

- Soccer and the Theater

- Never Stop Exploring

- Seeing The World Through the Camera Lens

- Live Our Way Into New Understanding

- Community is My Favorite Word

- Great-Grandmother's Cowbell

- We Can Love Completely

- My Kids Gave Me Life


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