The view from here

Call me crazy, but for some reason I decided to join NaBloPoMo, or National Blog Posting Month. The only requirement is that I post every day for the month of November. Like most spur of the moment decisions, I put absolutely no thought into the fact that we will be travelling at the end of the month. I'm going to give it my best, but I'm not entirely sure how I will accomplish posting from the road.

I'm also concerned whether or not I will actually have something interesting to write about for a whole month. I hope that I don't bore my family to tears. I'll try to stay away from posts about bodily functions (I do have a three year old and five month old, so that's pretty difficult).

There are some posts that ruminate in my mind for awhile before I put them out for the world (i.e. my postpartum post), so this month may provide me with an opportunity to put a pen to some of those ruminations. The most prominent of which are a series of posts I would like to write about living in Macon, and more specifically, living in a transitional neighborhood. That's where I got the idea for the title of this post, the view from here.


The photo above was taken from my front porch; it is my view of the world every day I descend our stairs and look out the front door. For those who wonder what "transitional" means in the context of a neighborhood, this picture illustrates that concept quite well. We live in one of the houses that has actually transitioned from being derelict to pretty wonderful (watch a video here). Living in an environment of such extremes (e.g. condemned vs rehabed homes) messes with my brain on a regular basis. And I suppose my goal in posting about our neighborhood and/or Macon is to air some of those thoughts and perhaps gain some clarity on our choice of living space. If nothing else, I will have a lot of material to work with.

To help document our life in this neighborhood, I'm going to take a daily photo. This has dual purposes. One, it will get Julia and I out of the house, and two, there's some pretty hysterical stuff to take pictures of out there. So here's to my month of posting, day four already completed.

(And for those looking for pics of Aunt B's visit, go here).