A Moment of Why

Tonight I was forced to reflect....why do I blog?  Why have I started and stopped 4 blogs?

I think this might be why:

1. I like to talk.  My pediatrician apologized to my mother for vaccinating me with a phonograph needle.  True story.
2. I like to educate people.  In fact, some of you young people are asking "what is a phonograph". It's a record player.  Now you know.
3. I like to write.  I don't think that I have ever admitted that before - even to myself.

And so, I blog.

However, I've always struggled with the fact that a blog needed a theme, a purpose.  As I changed purposes, I changed blogs.

There was:
Tales of a Fat Biker Mom - about training for a 27 mile ride
The Dish Fairy Doesn't Live Here - how to deal with the fact that the dish fairy will not clean for you
Wandering Wursters - our lives traveling in a RV (which never really happened)

I started a new blog last week (um...this one) and so I looked back at some of my old blogs and here is my new conclusion.  Some of my old blogs are .... funny.  Some are informative.  Some share my heart, but they all are things that I want to say.  Maybe that is my overarching theme.  So this new blog will just combine them all together.  Some posts will be new.  Some will be old and reposted.  

But, they will all be located on this blog.  "New Pair of Socks" because as someone told me tonight.  Socks are a hug for your feet.  So you can think of this blog as a virtual hug from me.

And now, for those of you who have asked (both of you), here is my favorite blog post about riding my bike.  From my old blog "Tales of a Fat Biker Mom".

Tomorrow, I will give you my old post with the most reads - over 2,254.  And you will ask, WHY?