After nearly 8 months, I’m coming back home.
I had a good run over at Saving Throw to Disbelieve, but *this* is home to me. I am Mandi Kaye, so it’s just not right for me to not be writing here (not that I was writing over at STtD – but it is chock full of YouTube-y goodness).
Check back soon and often to see what’s going on in the scary place that is my mind!
I’ve been toying with the idea of retiring mandikaye.com for awhile, and I’ve decided to take the plunge.
I love this site. I’ve been writing here (or not writing here) for more than 4 years. I have grown as a person and become incredibly self-aware as a result of the community that began here (and later fizzled).
But I am no longer the same person I was when I took up the mantle here.
When I began writing, this blog was called Imago Dei because that’s who and what I was. I wrote for God’s glory and to grow as a Christian in my faith.
When I chose to leave that life behind, I changed the name of this blog but it never felt quite right to write here from a worldview that wasn’t Christian. I tried, but you are all well aware that my writing has been less than lacking over the past year or more.
So, I am retiring this place. I’m leaving it up (for now), intact. I think it is important to keep it for myself so I know where I’m coming from.
I have a new blog, Saving Throw to Disbelieve. And anyone who wants to join me over there is more than welcome to come.
It’s been fun.
Posted in Blogging
Finally got to see Julie and Julia tonight. It was amazing. I imagine folks who saw it without having read the book first were less impressed than I, but I loved it.
I’m reminded of the things that I am passionate about (food and books) and what I want to do with them. One day I will own my own bookstore/cafe.
There are several recipes I want to try now, including:
I’m also filled with the urge to bone a duck. I don’t think that will be on my menu any time soon though.
But I do have a project in mind for 2010. One that combines the things that I love. This could be the start of something beautiful.
I’m loving this video. It gives me warm fuzzies to see my passion for something validated (even though it doesn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know).
HT: Randy Thomas
Posted in Blogging, Media and Culture
It’s a new start, so I got a new look!
It’s not done. Clearly the header/title is missing. I know! I’m waiting for the theme designer to get back to me with what font she used so I can set it up.
But man, I think this is my favorite theme that I’ve ever used. It’s so… pretty!
Posted in Blogging
So I’ve been thinking recently. Should I start chronicling my new thoughts and this new path I’m on? Should this blog become more of a skeptic’s blog?
No.
You know why? Because my life’s focus now is… LIFE! Sure I have thoughts about things that are a lot different than they used to be, but I’m not trying to convince anybody else to think like me.
For more than 2 years I used this blog as my platform. To be heard. To try and make people think…like me. I don’t want to do that anymore. I may be an atheistic agnostic now (how’d ya like THAT one?), but my focus is not on that label at all. I don’t want to debunk Christianity. I want to live my life. I want to be me.
Now that doesn’t mean I’m not going to post stuff that I find interesting or things that I agree with or disagree with. I still will. But I’m not going to go all gung-ho and turn this into a pro-atheism or pro-skeptic blog.
It’s pro-Mandi, and that’s all!
Posted in Atheism, Blogging, de-conversion
…the fire and passion for blogging, that is.
I’ve been waiting for this for ages.
Now, I want a clean slate. I don’t want to delete all of my old content, or get a new domain. Is there a simple way to backup all of my archives, and remove them from public view? Or maybe have them still accessible, but not here? Does that even make sense?
BTW! I jumped on the Twitter bandwagon. Follow me at twitter.com/mandikaye
Posted in Blogging
I just found the one good thing about the new firewall at work.
For the first time in… months… I’m posting this from work! Theoretically this means that my moratorium from blogging may be over.
Posted in Blogging
I’m still around, even though I’m not posting right now.
I’m okay, even. Happy.
I just haven’t felt the need or desire to post about a lot of the stuff I previously would have posted about.
I’m not retiring this blog – yet.
Posted in Blogging
So I changed my theme…again. I got tired of things not working the way they were supposed to because I wasn’t using an actal WP theme. Plus I wanted to go back to really clean blog feel.
I updated my sidebars with tons of links. Now you can see where I spend a lot of my time online (My Fav Sites), the sites I have in my feed reader (there are actually more than that, but those are the ones that update on a near daily basis), and another group of blogs that I recently stumbled on that are dedicated to raising awareness and acceptance for people who are larger (Big Girl Blogs).
Comments should now format properly, and the “Preview” button works again.
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