Hello World

This post seems a little like a new beginning.

I'm changing over to using my own identity in the blog world.

Not that it has ever been a secret who I am but I started using the "Saffron avatar" right at the beginning of my blog-life. I've always loved that image from the cover of Ripples on the Lake but as the publication moves further and further into the past, it seems less relevant to use the "Saffron avatar" in my wanderings on the web.

And on my web site Probiotics LoveThatBug I have the cutest little bug which I've named GoodBug. I was tempted to use him simply because I have to change identities every time I blog and my computer is, quite simply, the slowest in the known universe. So I've figured out (ie I read the help page) how to co-join my identities .

And I'm just going to be me!

I know the done thing is to have separate identities for your different "roles" on the web but it seems to me that we're in danger of losing our "realness" in the process.

So here you'll find me talking occasionally about my book - and if you look as if you have dollars to spend on a great paranormal adventure novel I will shamelessly steer you towards my Squidoo lens - and occasionally talking about the probiotic web site, but more often than not, just waffling on with a cream filled apple donut in hand and not a whole lot on my mind.

I've met people through blogging that I've enjoyed sharing cyber-time with and it seems the easiest way to get that back into my life is to just be the real me which means allowing the writing me and the probiotic me to cohabitate.

Over the next few days there will be a few changes here at The Flightless Writer as I redesign it as a multipurpose blog. I won't be chasing readers to lure them back here and will probably not venture much further than the group that has stuck with me through compulsive stat counting and unexplained absences over the last year.

So hopefully, Saffron is going to let me add this post to what she believes is "her" blog. You'll remember she locked me out of it about a year ago, but my time as come.

Move over Saffron Delaney.

I'm taking the blog back!