What does your new year hold? My 2010 included a lot of changes, which will continue into the new year.

          I’m also making plans, sometimes called resolutions. But not the typical resolutions. Not the resolutions that are forgotten by February. At least that’s my plan.

          This blog is my feeble attempt to share with anyone who will listen the glorious truth of a life lived for, with and through my wondrous Lord. Feeble because there are so many things I want to share, so much I want to say. I write, but my attempted posts become too long, too serious, too full. Or I swing back the other way and they become too trivial. So I don’t post anything. And this blog sits empty. Doing little except reveal my failure to be consistent.

          It’s time for that to change. I will post something to this blog at least twice a week.

          I’m still floundering, trying to decide exactly what to write. Do I write about my writing? Or my hobbies? (Which ones?) Or homeschooling? Or being a wife and mom? Or what? I have many interests, many thoughts . . . and many doubts. (Who really wants to hear what I have to say? Anyone?)

          Even so, I will post something at least twice each week. I will do that for the next two months. In February, my domain name is due to be renewed. If I have not posted to this blog on a regular basis by mid-February, I think it wise to let the domain expire. Whatever happens, whether renewed and regular blog postings or termination of a useless and unused blog, this year will be a year of following my wondrous Lord wherever He leads.

          Won’t you join me?

          In case you haven’t noticed, I’ll tell you. I’ve been having a hard time thinking of things to blog about. It might be that I have made the focus of this blog a bit too narrow and the “target audience” a bit too broad. At least in my own mind. I’ve considered and discarded several topics in the past few weeks, some because they were not reading- or entertainment-related, others because I thought they might be too “faith-filled”.

          I’ve been evaluating that hesitancy and have come to a conclusion. If you read my About page, you will see that I consider myself a Christian, a wholehearted Christian who lives her life by the truths and principles taught in the Bible. I want to reach out and encourage others like that. I’m well aware that the percentage of people who think like me is small. Even smaller are those with an interest in fantasy entertainment. Many of them may never read my blog, but even so, that person is my audience, the target of my musings. All others are more than welcome, encouraged and solicited even, but my topics will be directed at those who love the Lord Jesus and desire to live lives that honor Him.

          Most likely nothing will really change except the frequency of my posts. My style of conversing, in written and verbal form, is inclusive, considerate and accepting of most everyone I meet. I don’t try to antagonize or condemn and I certainly don’t expect everyone to see life exactly the way I see and experience it. Occasionally, though, I will say or do things that do antagonize or at least discomfit those who do not share my faith. I do not apologize for that. (At least not when it is prompted by my faith. If I’ve just been plain rude, I will eventually apologize. )

          I’ll still be posting reviews most Fridays. The change there, though, will be that I will post reviews of fiction and non-fiction, not just fantasy. I’ve recently read several non-fiction books that I believe are worth sharing and I read across several genres and would like to share thoughts on those. If I find a backlog of reviews accumulating, I’ll add another day for posting them, but for now reviews or links to other review sites will be posted on Fridays.

          In addition to these minor changes for Tuesdays and Fridays, I will also be chronicling a new project, 9 by 99 in 2009. I blogged about it at Routines For Writers and will post more details here during the next few days. I’m not going to plan a blogging schedule for that project. I’ll just post as I have something to say, but at least once a week. Sometimes my Tuesday’s musings and my 9 by 99 musings will be combined, but my goal is to post something different at least three times per week.

The new year is about to begin.

Yes, yes, I know the calendar says it is January 13, almost 2 weeks since the beginning of the new year. I’m referring to this blog’s new year . . . it’s birth year.

My Army son is headed back to post (we had a great visit!) and  life has settled down to what passes as normal here. I am back to preparing this site. I am reading books, writing down my thoughts and finalizing the blog schedule.

As mentioned elsewhere, I will post a review of a book or movie on Fridays. Some reviews will be all my own thoughts on the story; others will reference reviews I find on the web and my thoughts about them.  On Tuesdays, I will blog on various aspects of the Christian life and how that impacts our choices of entertainment.

So get ready! This site will host its first review on January 16, 2008!

See you then!