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June 16, 2008
NaBloPoMo - Day 1
So I found my way to this site called NaBloPoMo by way of rissadee, someone I follow on Twitter. NaBloPoMo stands for "National Blog Posting Month", like how NaNoWriMo is shorthand for "National Novel Writing Month". It sounded interesting, so I thought I'd sign up.
The point is to make a blog post every day for a month. I was thinking of holding off until July started, but then decided I'd start today and try it until at least my birthday in July. This should be easier than NaNoWriMo at least. I only made it about three days the last NaNoWriMo because I wasn't prepared for it, and tried to do too much research instead of just winging the story. But NaBloPoMo runs on themes, instead of writing your own story, and June's theme is "home". I can run with that for the next two weeks for sure.
Home used to be Saginaw, MI. That's where I moved when we got married. Before that, it was Auburn, MI, where my folks moved when THEY got married. Before THAT, it was Bay City, MI, where I was born and spent the first two years of my life. I still consider it "my hometown" - my mom was born and raised in Bay City, so we were always there visiting her dad. Also, I went to high school in Bay CIty at All Saints (last grade to attend classes at South Campus!), so there's a lot of "growing up" memories attached to the place. I've come across a few Twitter users from the Bay City area as well, so the place keeps coming up in my mind.
Every once in a while, I get the idea of taking a day some weekend and driving up (from my current home in Ypsilanti) to check out my old stomping grounds. I know lots of things would have changed: the mall I used to hang out in on the far east side of town is a ghost town now, roads have been re-aligned to change traffic flows - heck, they tore down one of the buildings I wandered for high school. But still, it would be nice to go back and see things again. Maybe it'll happen this summer - my parents want the grandkids to come up for an extended visit, so I might find a chance to slip away for a few hours.
Posted by zaren at June 16, 2008 08:01 PM