Colin Walker

It's Mother's Day here in the UK, it falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent so changes each year – I've never really understood why.

It's the first time there are two mothers in our household so the day is doubly special.

As I have written on this day over the past five years ¹ it's now the sixth anniversary of my decision to reboot the blog. I moved all old content to an archive, installed and modified a minimal theme (which would eventually become the basis for how the site now looks) and decided to be more casual in how I blogged.

The biggest issue was that I always put too much pressure on myself that posts should be perfect essays, more like news articles, but that's not what a blog is for.

It wasn't until nearly a year later that I fully got into the swing of things and really relaxed to the point where I was posting more regularly with a better mix of content and post lengths. I am still immensely grateful to Manton Reece for triggering a new realisation as to what this blog could be and do.

Things have morphed and grown so much since that March day in 2016.

While I may take breaks from time to time, sometimes feeling like I just want to delete everything and be done with it, I always come back. It may take a while but I miss blogging, miss what it allows me to do. I was infatuated with social media (especially Twitter and Google+) but know my passion really lies here in my own little corner of the web.

I sometimes regret the breaks and dalliances elsewhere but remind myself that I needed them to reach the point I'm at today. If I had tried to force myself to keep posting I would have resented it and likely taken that radical step of trashing everything. So I'm glad that I took breaks; I'm glad that I spent periods writing elsewhere because they made me realise where home was and what was waiting there for me.