Welcome to My New Digs

I know, this post is a little late coming.

But you’ve noticed probably that I’ve switched things up around here.

I’m the Queen of De-Cluttering. So it’s hard for me to approach spring without paring down just about everything I touch. [Read about my haptic spring cleaning adventures from a few years ago here.]

Hence a new face for the blog. It’s more streamlined and more functional, which makes the revamp a win in my book.

In any case, hope you feel as at home as always in the new digs.

What I’m Writing On

I’ve dabbled in a few kinds of posts over the years, sometimes doing series about writing or teaching urban high schoolers or creativity. But slowly I began favoring a new menu of topics that fit with where I project my future writing projects are going.

And where I am going.

This blog now fits best at the crossroads of community and connectedness, I’d say, with its anthem being “Finding Extraordinary Friendship In a Sometimes Too Ordinary World.” (I talk about what that means to me here.)

And here are some topics I see hovering under the community and connectedness umbrella: Breaking Ranks, Nurturing Community, Connectedness, Neighboring, Hospitality, Family, Friendship, Social Media, Teaming, Being Church, Living As Church With Each Other, Bullying, Oppression, Church Unity and Division, Vulture Culture, Grace, Social Change, Theology or Current Events (as it relates to these topics), Helping People, Mentoring, Social Skills, Disillusionment, Changing the World, Peacemaking, Love.

And no, may the Clairol rumor mill cease to spin, I don’t have red hair.

When the blog got a new face, I decided to put up a new face too. But after posting a new pic for my Twitter and Facebook page profile, I got a few (possibly panicked) texts from people who apparently don’t see me much around the Christmas holidays when I tend to go dark or go home–hair wise.

Breathe easy, friends. I’m still rocking the all-American brown…for now.

Those red-loving pics are from winter-time past. (Hence why my frozen self is excelling at being even more awkward than normal during the photo shoot.)

There’s even a rare photo in specs. It’s a throwback to the nerd-happy days of my youth. And for those of you balking at the red, there’s a few black and whites in tribute to Glamour Shots gone by.

(Come on. You know better than that. I never did Glamour Shots.)

Here’s some select snapshots for your photo-clicking enjoyment.