Potential for reinvention

Since I started digging into writing again I’ve been giving myself time to think and research various things related to blogging and writing as a whole. Well, yesterday while I was sitting at work, a thought flashed through my mind.

What if I rebranded my blog?

Why would I do that, and if I did what would that look like?

One of the original reasons for the blog was to serve as a space for the things that came from my streaming on Twitch, so naturally that’s where I sourced the idea for the name and icon. The thing is now, though, that I’m not streaming regularly and I haven’t for probably more than a couple years. Life happened and I didn’t have the same drive for it anymore. I might still do it on rare occasions but it is no longer the pillar of my life it was back then, and I’ll still work on the backlog of requests from my streams because I owe it to my friends and viewers who put them in.

But where do I go from here? I’ll need to think about it more. The whole “rebranding” idea isn’t unreasonable, but if I move forward with it I need it to make sense for the things I’m doing with my time.

History or Memory?

What major historical events do you remember?

This question almost feels like it could be interpreted a couple of different ways. Are we talking about events we remember learning about, or events we remember happening in our lifetime?

For me it’s the latter. My initial reaction when I read this question was to recall the memory of where I was on September 11th, 2001. Being 13 years old at the time, I was in school. I was early, the first bell hadn’t rung yet, and I was in the library. A friend’s older brother was there helping part time for credit or something and we had been talking with a teacher when a tv in the corner switched over to playing the initial broadcast of the news coverage. All conversation immediately stopped and everyone watched in silence as they replayed footage of the second plane colliding with the tower…