Look Back and Cringe
Posted in The Life of the Historian and tagged with Blogness, North Carolina, Photos on June 24, 2009This post is a part of 20SB’s Looking Back Blog Carnival, and Ben & Jerry’s is awarding free ice cream to lucky bloggers and readers!
Trying to choose a blog post from my first two months blogging has been difficult…they’re all so bad! It makes me very thankful that I’ve grown as a blogger in the last 3 years, but it’s still a bit painful to look back.
I decided to choose “Two Homes Away from My Home Away from Home” because it’s fairly representative of where I started out as a blogger, basically using the blog as an online journal. It was originally published June 2, 2006. I couldn’t help but include some commentary as well. Enjoy…if you can!
It’s been 11 months since I moved out here. I know that’s not a big marker, but it feels like it to me. [For whatever reason, 11 months was a really big deal, but 1 year wasn't as much.] So much has changed in these 11 months; it seems like yesterday when I was crying over leaving behind dorms, friends, BSU, car, church. [Oh yeah, this was the summer that I studied rhetorical devices. This one, omission of a conjuction, is called asyndeton.]
Lately I’ve been blessed with deeper friendships with a few different people here in NC. It’s a total answer to prayer! Just last week I was praying for more gospel-centered relationships. I don’t want to merely exchange pleasantries with the believers around me…
This week I’ll be housesitting for two different houses. At the one I simply will be caring for the cats, but at the other I will be caring for a dog, 2 finches, and some plants while I stay there. It’ll be nice to have a little mini-vacation right in Wake Forest. [It was nice to get "away"...but that dog was a bit of a pill!]
What did I tell you…fairly boring! As a cherry on top of the ice cream, here’s a picture from that time:
See, I was embracing the Tarheels early in my North Carolina life.
June 24th, 2009 at 12:58 am
haha. oh man, i feel the same way when i look back on my older posts…
don’t get me started on pictures
June 24th, 2009 at 2:37 am
I don’t think it was boring…it was about your life and what you were going through… love the fact you embraced the Tar Heels so early on! Ha ha
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June 24th, 2009 at 6:47 am
You definitely have developed your voice in the past few years, Ronnica… :)
June 24th, 2009 at 7:52 am
I can think back further than you…I couldn’t believe you were moving to North Carolina…good for you. And now I have found a way to keep up with you every day…and I am learning…it took quite awhile.
June 24th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Actually, that post is not half bad for a beginner!
And I do like the photo of you!
June 24th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
You know the funny part…I don’t think I’ve changed much!
June 25th, 2009 at 11:39 am
I just traveled to Chapel Hill for the first time since I moved to NC two years ago – and I definitely snapped a photo of that sign – and it was gorgeous! Such a beautiful place.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
@Julie: Yeah, I knew I’d be a Tarheel fan before I got here.
@Iva: Thanks, I agree. Hopefully it’ll continue to develop!
@Britni: I don’t think that I’ve changed very much, but my writing definitely has.
@MinD: It is such a pretty campus. I had a friend in town at the time, so I took her by.