Moving on instead

Google shut down my blogspot for nearly three years. I had redesigned my website for my personal domain, and my web gal reconfigured it in WordPress. At my request, she linked this blog, with comments allowed. That opened the door for someone in China to fill the comments section with links to a pornography site. Google swooped in and slapped a huge red flag warning on both, and shut everything completely down, including my design and illustration site. I took down the website and a redirect was added to my Behance /Adobe page. Apparently I needed a justification for the outrageous software fee I pay monthly.

Joining a local writer's group to motivate myself to write again, I recently discovered that my blogspot thanks to my petition to reinstate it, was back online. 

At times lately when I haven't written anything new to share, I've opened this old blogspot and read a past published post. What a time capsule into my life...and 82 entries, seriously, did I really write that much? 

So many things I had forgotten about, applying for a job at Google! I ended up working instead for the Daily Courier, our local paper, in the display advertising dept. Two years of designing ads and marketing materials before being laid off and taking early retirement. 

Someone back then told me I whined too much about my work and clients, the man I was seeing at the time resented the fact that I was spending too much time writing, when as he said, we could be hiking or doing something together. So I quietly closed this chapter of my life in 2010. 

Now it's a radically different creative world than it was 15 years ago.There is AI and Canva, and I'll be sharing some thoughts about their influence, far eclipsing the stockart tsunami of the late nineties. 

I'm going to dismiss that voice in my head that continually pops up and says I am not a writer, I'm an artist... digital creator is the new term these days. I have Grammarly to help correct my punctuation and even more help if I want. I'm going to be still sharing about my artwork, the little I do these days, in addition I will be posting some of the drafts I have crafted to accompany the photography book and memoir I am working on. Courage is fear turned inside out. 

Wish me luck as I navigate this new chapter ahead.