Reflecting on ten years of blogging

• I graduated from Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design University, had four jobs (2 design studios, a non-profit and a mobile tech start-up), and started a business
• I’ve lived in three municipalities; in my current one I live a stone’s throw from the hospital where I was born!
• I haven’t aged one bit since entering my thirties (yeah right)
• There are 9 unfinished blog posts and 367 published
• I developed connections with several local bloggers
• My blog was noticed by Natural Health magazine, which published some of my zero waste tips and a brief profile in 2015
• I continue to get traffic to posts about monoculture and biodiversity and why bikes are good for Vancouver (updated for an upcoming article in my local paper’s cycling column)
• I learned a second content management system and a third programming language
• iPhones and iPads came on the scene, changing my design process and making things more fun and more complex at the same time
• Since starting my business a little over three years ago, I’ve worked with more than 30 non-profit and small business clients, for which I’m grateful, and I probably need to blog more often about the amazing work they’re doing
• I took up cycling (and became addicted), stand-up paddling, knitting, gardening and hiking. Also protesting!

My blog has been chronically neglected for a long time, and to be frank that’s probably not going to change. Facebook tends to absorb ideas into short blurbs rather than researched exploration or an illustrated story. I do enjoy writing, however, and I’m hoping that this new content management system will facilitate more of it.