August 18, 2026. Bring back the lost art of blogging, please!!

In a world where seemingly everything is written… and answered by AI, it makes me long for old school blogging. I find myself fawning over vintage everything these days. I recently started decorating by basement in the vintage era 70s style it was built, and we’re having so much fun finding consignment and flea market pieces to add to the decor.  I know this is such a dichotomy, but I even got into the habit of looking at those 70s and 80s AI generated instagram reels of what the Christmas holidays used to look like while I was on a vacation last month.  But really I think I’m longing for times where relationships with people and our environment were primary, and we were not distracted by technology (other than a big TV set on the floor with only a few channel choices!).

I am intentionally focused on maintaining better direct connections with the people in my life and I’m also finding so much value in authentically and sincerely written words. There is just this feeling I get–I think I can intuitively tell if something was written by a person and not AI…although AI is getting so good that I’m sure it’s possible it could fool me. So, with that said, I am going to start BLOGGING here as regularly as I can, and I vow NOT to use AI to edit these blog posts. (Perhaps you will be able to tell from all the grammatical errors you will end up finding, lol!)

I’m not entirely sure what I’m going to write about from post to post, some of it may be clinical insights but I think really I will share a lot of my personal thoughts and perspectives on this thing we call life, as they say. I believe we are in the midst of intense and rapid change, and experiencing it together as a community will help us deal with some of the bumps along the road just a little bit better. If something I write helps even one person feel just a little more understood, a little more connected, then I have achieved what I set out to do.

~Jen