Freeze

Let’s be honest. I have a problem. (Why does this not surprise anyone?  😉 )

When I don’t know how I want to proceed, I usually freeze. In October I went to an amazing conference for bloggers and the news was intense, interesting, deliberate. And I froze. Because as fabulous as the information was, I was processing from a different perspective than ever before. In my past lives I’ve been a crafty blogger, spinning off designs and recipes with my dear friend Heather of WhipperBerry.

It was a lot of fun – but always in the back of my mind, I was a writer:

Secretly seeking Christene Houston…{the author}.

When the time came and my book was out, I was blogging like it was business. I posted every. single. day. I wrote in advance, two weeks at a time. I snatched up beautiful pics and happy quotes. Because it’s what I do. It’s who I am and what makes up parts of me.

But here I was faced with the decisions about advertising and writing for brands and I didn’t know who I wanted to be on that front. It’s my custom based in profound perfectionism to do things well and since I didn’t know how…I just paused.

Pausing isn’t such a bad thing. I still don’t know everything, but I do know what I love. I love having conversations.

I love finding recipes that rock and sharing them.

I love great music that speaks to and inspires me.

I love writing and sharing images or thoughts of the road I’m traveling on with my writing,

and I love talking about uplifting things that broaden my mind and lift my spirits. That’s what this blog will be all about.

I hope you like it.