{"id":1029,"date":"2009-02-03T10:59:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T10:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2009\/02\/gearing-up.html"},"modified":"2009-02-03T10:59:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T10:59:40","slug":"gearing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2009\/02\/gearing-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Gearing up"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a bit of a break, I’m gearing up for more blogging. For the last year and a half, my head has been fogged up by pre-move, move and post-move stuff as well as sorting through my own sense of what I need to do with my writing. I think I’ve reached a good balance and am in a space, with the energy, to pursue the fiction, whatever non-fiction comes along to pay the bills, and blogging with more frequency. So here goes!
\nFirst, off, I’d like to introduce you to my new home page. <\/a>
\nIsn’t it pretty?
\n <\/span><\/span>
\nI take absolutely no credit for it – all of that goes to Brandon Evans of 7 Leaf Design.<\/a> Brandon is the website manager for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis<\/a> (and online editor of The Criterion<\/a>).\u00a0 He\u00a0 was a reporter at The Criterion for 4 \u00bd years prior to that. 7 Leaf Design specializes in simple websites for small businesses and organizations, particularly those which are Catholic (parishes, schools, etc.). Their\u00a0 most recent project was a website for The Message, the newspaper of the Diocese of Evansville, Ind.<\/a> He also does quite a bit of work as a contract designer for internal sites at Eli Lilly & Co. He\u00a0 can be reached at bevans@7leafdesign.com.
\nWe still have to decide what to do with all of the old writings at the old site (which is accessible from a link on the new site), but that will happen in due time. I’m just glad and grateful I have something professional looking, instead of the mess I cobbled together 9 years ago. (In looking through the File Manager…there are files from 1998 there, when I first started playing around on the Internets…it makes me a bit nostalgic, to tell the truth.\u00a0 Remember the old days? The days before blogs and Facebook when we’d spend our time searching out nifty border and button sets (I always was on the lookout for the vintage\/retro look myself), the days of web rings?
\nAnyway, thanks to Brandon for working so hard and being patient with me over the past months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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