I folllow K over at Banterings of a Basketcase and she’s always finding great memes which in turn makes me want to write about them.  She also has a way of finding great blogs, putting them on her sidebar which entices me to follow them too.  I think my time spent in the blogosphere has quadrupled since becoming acquainted with K.  Today she’s picked a writing challenge from Mommy Wants Vodka – it’s about telling the world why you blog.

I think the UK was a long way behind in being introduced to the world of blogs. At least I was.  I wanted to blog at first to show people that the stereotypical witch with wart patterned skin and evil cackle was not the women of today.  I really wanted people to understand the human side of being a Pagan.  That apart from a differing in belief systems we who walk the witchy path are no different from any one else.  We have kids, stress, jobs, husbands, ex-husbands etc. etc.

I didn’t realise, when I began, how nerve wracking it is to have your life open to the world.  It felt akin to remembering you’ve left your personal diary open on a particular juicy page where your mother could read it.  It took a while for me to be comfortable.

I’ve found blogging to be very cathartic and if it were a personal diary it’s the longest one I’ve ever kept.  I like to share my travels around England, my weird love of cemeteries and I’m never sorry to report a ghost tale or two.  These are all things that make me who I am and I really enjoy writing about them.

I also write about my kids and daily life stuff. It’s good for me to know I’m not alone when I’m having an image meltdown in the changing rooms or pulling my hair out with kids throwing tantrums.  I’ve really appreciated the extensions of friendship that have been handed to me through blogging – I never saw that coming at the beginning!

I think a lot – all the time.  I’m a natural born ponderer and my thoughts often lead me down the mystical or spiritual path.  Sometimes I share them here.  I think I should share them more often (it would take the burden off of my husband lol).

Blogging also extends my comfort zone.  I think my feelings still linger from being exposed, soul laid bare. There are posts I compose in my head which haven’t yet made it to the blog because I worry about whether they’d be appropriate.  For example one of the things I’ve been thinking about recently is sex… but my Piscean nature is allowing those fishes to swirl about in indecision so I haven’t yet written about it.  Yet.

And that’s why I do it.