Yesterday, while driving home from some appointments in Dover-Foxcroft, I was scanning the radio dial for something tolerable, or at least wouldn’t put me to sleep. In my blog post from 2006 at the Words Matter blog, I wrote this about fear: These are both central tenets to Orwell’s book that I’m amazed was written in 1949 and is still eerily relevant-just as if he’d written it last week. Just like in the present, I was concerned about the use of fear and hysteria (back in 2006) and also, the limbing of what is considered “proper” in what we are allowed to think and say. Interestingly, these prior blog posts serve as a “trail of breadcrumbs” back to what I was thinking at the time. Since I just completed rereading George Orwell’s dystopian classic, 1984, I was curious about what I might have picked up previously and perhaps noted somewhere. The blog I maintained from 2004 until I launched this one in 2012, Words Matter, is still out there.
Occasionally, I look back at something I wrote.
I’ve hit the markers I set out for nearly 20 years ago. My writing has been bylined in a host of print publications and online. Since 2003, I’ve had several blogs including this one. As a writer looking to up my game and work on my craft, I was off to the races with a space to publish my own writing. The most important element of the site was that it including a blogging platform. Fortunately, I didn’t invest much energy into furthering Whitey’s corporate agenda and instead began planning my plan of exit.Ī co-worker with topnotch design skills built a functional website at my behest. Every minute I spent there was a minute I’d never recover. I occupied a cubicle in a soul-sucking job for a major disability insurer.
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