Posts Tagged 'blog'

This questions has caused me more trouble than I care to admit. I never felt a strong pull toward what “I am supposed to be”. I’ve joked recently with people my age and older that we still don’t know what we want to be when we grow up. I imagine we’ll figure out one day.

For the last several months, and maybe from the beginning of this blog, my blog has been asking the same question. The focus for my blog has meandered from family to ministry to leadership. It’s tried to balance between personal anecdotes and lessons or devotionals for a more general public. The poor little blog is even torn between whether to be spiritual or technological in nature. Talk about an identity crisis.

After giving it much thought, my blog is not suffering from an identity crisis. My blog is suffering from being too much like its creator: me. As many of us experience, my life is a balancing act between competing agendas. I am simultaneously an individual consumed with my own wants and desires as well as a parent/husband/church leader whose primary responsibility is for the care for others. I am pulled between things I want to do and things I need to do. I walk daily in the gray area between the spiritual and the physical. Throw in a little bit of ADD, infrequent bouts of fatigue and depression, and an ability to be amused and entertained by things that others consider silly and you’ve got the makings for one random life.

As such, I have decided what this blog is supposed to be. As narcissistic as it may sound, this blog is about me. It is about my challenges and my triumphs. It is about my successes and failures. It is about my attempt to do the best I can to make it through this world that we live in without messing things up too badly. That walk includes lessons God is teaching me and will include other characters that share the stage of life with me.  Sometimes those lessons will have a broad focus and sometimes narrow.  The characters may be friends, family, or strangers.  One thing this blog will not be is fake.  You’ll get the real Brad, and hopefully you’ll find him a little charming.

Thanks for sharing this journey with me!

After what has been a rather long hiatus, bradpalmore.com is back in action.  Not only does it have a new theme, but the technology behind the blog is all new as well.  This blog is sitting on a fresh installation of WordPress 2.7.1 that was just upgraded to 2.8.  The database is fresh and free from all of the clutter left from the pre-WordPress 2.0 days.

My plugins are all new as well.  You’ll notice some of them right away, like the little “ShareThis” tag at the bottom of the post to let you easily share blog entries with others or the little “New” icon next to the blog entries you haven’t read yet.  The links in the sidebar area also nested to save space.  One thing I messed up in deleting the old blog was not copying my links before I did so.  If you want your link added, let me know in the comments.

The pages have been streamlined.  The “About Me” page has a new bio and the “Contact Me” page now has more contact options.  I’ll be adding pages on church health, mediation, and resources that I’ve produced in the coming weeks, so check back.

There are some additional things I’ll highlight as we go along.  Thanks for checking in with us again and for tolerating the shut down for as long as you did!

You probably didn’t notice, but I’ve moved my blog to a new server. TheoBloggers has got a really cool project cooking up right now, and I’m jumping in to test it, which is only right considering I’m one of the owners. We’ve found a resource that will let us string all of our blogs together into a social networking interface. This is going to be great for people to move from one blog to another seamlessly.

There’s a ton of coolness that is going to come from this. Why don’t you check some of it out at http://theobloggers.com. That’s where the party is at.