I created this site for the pages, using the WordPress framework to set up a basic portfolio. I didn’t intend to blog.

But I’ve been blogging elsewhere, and I’ve rediscovered something I knew but had forgotten: the more I write, the better I feel about writing, and about the stuff I know, and about what I want to know and learn and do. Writing is an act of agency.

I’ve been in a pretty rough slump over the last couple of years, career-wise – unhappy where I am, unsure what direction to go, isolated, and increasingly lacking confidence. That started to change, slowly and in fragmented ways, about a year and a half ago. And as I started coming back to life, I realized – I have so much work to do. So many missed opportunities. So many neglected relationships.

This blog, I hope, will be part of doing the work. I’ve been blogging, in one way or another, since 2002, and a couple of different times I’ve made forays into library writing – book reviews and rural library stuff, a short-lived but well-intentioned local-interest collection development column on my organization’s website based loosely on the (then brand-new) Colorado State Library blog.  But in the early years, I didn’t feel like I knew enough to write authoritatively, and later, my attention was focused on other interests. I’ve come full circle recently, bringing my interest in process and maintenance creativity and radical autodidactism back to my work in the library. I don’t want to wait, anymore, until I’m experienced enough, connected enough, credentialed enough to write about the things I’m excited about – because doing the writing is part of what will get me there.

As I navigate the coming changes, I’m going to use this site to document that experience, develop ideas, and reflect on this rapidly changing and exciting industry and my place in it.