The Bloom­ing Wild­flow­ers Project, which I would not nor­mally have read except that I found what I thought might be an inter­est­ing link on Seed­ed­Buzz¹, talks about the need for a blog­ging mis­sion state­ment. I have one, sort of, and it’s on my home page:

Finally, this web­site con­tains my blog, It’s All Con­nec­ted, where you can read what I have to say about, in no par­ti­cu­lar order, lite­ra­ture and social jus­tice; poetry and sex; trans­la­tion and mas­cu­li­nity; Jew­ish iden­tity and teach­ing; gen­der and Iran; wri­ting and femi­nism; and wha­te­ver else moves me to write  —  because it really is, all of it, connected.

I am now begin­ning to think, though, that I ought to hone it more. That cer­tainly would be the advice I’d give to some­one who asked me for it. “Explore more what you mean by con­nected,” I’d most prob­a­bly say, and it’s good advice, but these days I am just too tired, too stressed, too busy, too too, to do it. At least The Bloom­ing Wild­flow­ers Project has got­ten me think­ing about it, though. For now, I’ll have to be sat­is­fied with that.

1. And Seed­ed­Buzz seems to me to have an inter­est­ing idea for how one might bring atten­tion to one’s blog. If you check it out and if you decide to join, please use rich­new­man as your invite code. I will get credit for it and maybe a lit­tle bit of money. [↩]