Refresh

* out my window as I type *

Over the last ten+ years, I have enjoyed blogging, video podcasting, audio podcasting…all the things to connect with You! When I am not online I am still always writing, always knitting & sometimes making up knitting patterns and hiking all over my lovely island home.

I get bored easily. I move the furniture around in my home often. Even my desk gets items on it changed, rearranged. I enjoy the refresh. It is a good thing, too, since I have lived in over 15 houses in 23 years, and more than 9 different places. When I say “different places” I should qualify it to mean “moving form the Easternmost coast to a remote South East Island in Alaska, back to the East Coast, to the Mid-South, to 2 different Hawaiian Islands, back to the East Coast, to the US Virgin Islands, back to Alaska this time on a western island.”

I haven’t minded. Not once.

I have plugged into new communities that were all so very different in most ways.

And when the community I needed couldn’t be found, I would work hard to create one and invite others to join in, a bit selfishly so I could make friends and keep sane. I would invent groups for my kids, other times for our family, and still others just for me to try something new.

So this small facelift to my Encourage Better website may at first glance seem to simply tidy up and polish it a bit. But as you look around, and hopefully make it your intention to visit every few days, you’ll discover there are new things I am sharing.

I hope you enjoy what you see and discover. More importantly, I hope you will feel welcomed enough to participate and plug in!

I’ve shared before that when I sit down to tap away on these little black square keys, I am actually thinking of you! A specific YOU, not some faceless, nameless being out there in the cyber world. You are my friend, or hopefully soon to become. You sit with your tea and iPhone scrolling through this site when you have a few minutes to visit. You open your laptop and enjoy the emails I send while you knit. We both love making things or cheering on other makers. We don’t need to do everything, but we must be doing something or we just don’t feel settled.

So, my Friend, I think of this website revamp as a way to prep my house for a highly anticipated visit with you.

I look forward sitting together and enjoying companionable endeavors!

Kindly,

Mel

Ps. Let me know if you see any dust bunnies hopping around. They may look like broken links that don’t work. They may appear as fonts that you can’t read so easily. Thanks.