Category: about

04Jan

Redesign: Lean, Mean, Fighting … Website?

That wordplay was worse than a bad pun but I can’t help myself. The OG site was ok, actually pretty good for a one-night build at 3 am. But according to the data I have, 85% of you are reading this on a mobile phone, and 15% are on a desktop. I really wanted a site that was easier to read on a phone, and easier to navigate, and maybe even easier on the eyes to read.

Hopefully this redesign does at least #1 of those things for you. You won’t have to scroll past a big colored block & image with pointless text to get to the blog posts. And if you wanted to check out the poetry page (maybe I’ve been secretly uploading more poems without mentioning it??) or the about page, you can now get there from the top menu on every page–it looks like three lines, but its really a drop down menu.

Otherwise the site is as it is. Pretty simple in terms of layout and content. As time goes by, perhaps I’ll want to add more ways for people to look through the archives, etc, but I haven’t been online long enough for any of that nonsense yet.

In the meantime, if I’m not here blogging, I’m either at work or at one of these other sites, taking pictures, categorizing my books, or saving ideas for the zillion craft and art projects of the future. Feel free to drop in on me and say hi!

Hope you’re having a great start to your New Year!

19Nov

Hello world!

I am relaunching AccidentlyRetro, a blog I imagined when I was just 25 years old, a new resident of San Francisco, and loving my first job post-academic teaching life at a dot-com. The couches and ping-pong tables and keggers on Fridays were in full swing, and I wanted to be a part of everything.

Fast forward to 20 years later. I now work as an ICU nurse; I’ve been married and divorced; I lost myself to depression and PTSD for a time. But here I am, back again to claim my place on the internet. Even if all I ever do is scream into the void, I know at least the void is listening.

And if you’re reading this, now you are too. Let’s take a look at what inspired my sudden return to the world of the writer– a trip on the Wayback Machine recommended by my therapist…

I was so nostalgic–so happy and sad at the same time, which I guess must be the most basic definition of nostalgia itself–that I immediately searched to see what was at that website now. Turns out nothing… Probably because it is such an, ahem, alternate spelling of “accidently/accidentally.”

So here I am, domain purchased. Designing a WordPress blog, writing my first post. I did decide to jump ship on Blogger, which was my OG platform, but alas– not everything cam remain the same. One thing that is definitely different: my grammar has deteriorated significantly. What can I say? It’s less important now that I’m a nurse. I know the mechanism of action of a LOT more drugs though. *wink wink*

As I scrounge around the Internet archives, I will likely try to pull out some old gems from 2001-2004. We can look forward to those. In the meantime, let’s see what happens.