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Why I Chose Ghost over Substack And What Creators Should Know Before Jumping Ship

Why I Chose Ghost over Substack And What Creators Should Know Before Jumping Ship

In the past few years, especially this year, people have either been fleeing or reducing their time on platforms owned by X and Meta and I've seen tons of people run to Substack to open blogs, newsletters, podcasts, and etc and communicate with their followings there, monetized or

Protecting My Voice Online: The Move to Bluehost

Protecting My Voice Online: The Move to Bluehost

Yesterday I moved my blog's hosting from Wordpress.com to Bluehost where I am now self hosting my blog and domain. This was considerably more work and upkeep than just keeping it on a platform like Wordpress, and anyone who has followed my blog for any length of

Eyes Within the Chaos

Lately, I’ve been exploring a new way of creating art, drawing by hand, but digitally. These pieces you see here are part of that journey. They carry the same raw energy and emotion that I pour into my pen and marker work, but now I have the freedom to

An Artist's Journey and Frustrations

Being an artist can be filled with frustration and trials. Nothing about it is easy. Thankfully I have a job I do from home that pays the bills, but allows me the time to pursue my art dreams. That said, some days I wonder if this will ever happen. As

My First Local Art Show

I haven't posted anything in a while and I apologize for that. I've had a lot going on here and had a medication change that has me readjusting some things. In the meantime I set up my art at a local art show. It was quite

Making it Through Jury Duty with Social Anxiety

I Haven't written a blog in a couple days, but real life has had my attention a bit too much. Yesterday I had jury duty and while it turned out to be pretty easy, my head built it up into a lot. I had originally been scheduled for

Public Scrutiny Process Video

So I've never done one before, but a few people asked me to make a video showing my process. I guess people have never seen digital "liquid" art like mine. So despite my nervousness I went ahead and did one. Go easy on me! I won&

An Artistic Journey on the Trails of Mission San Jose

Today's hike we went to Mission San Jose which is pretty close to our house. We'd been meaning to hike there for a while, but kept going when they were closed too late in the evening. Today we left in the morning and had a fun

A Day at the Doctor and Hiking Adventures

This week has been a busy week, but in a mostly good way. Yesterday we went on another hike. Once again at Mission Trails in San Antonio. We like to explore so we take different routes and different places the trails run off. Yesterday we bit off a bit more

Road Trips, New Art and Other Mayhem

Had a busy weekend this weekend. No major hikes yesterday, but took the foster dog for a short walk. Turns out its about a half a mile to the end of our block and back. I also got my new Merrell Boots and they are more comfortable than I had

Beyond the Service: A Day Spent Honoring a Life in a Polish Church

Yesterday we spent the day at a funeral for my wife's aunt who passed away recently. I never met her, and wife hadn't seen her in years, but we went to the funeral anyway out of respect to our other family members. The service was at

Personal Revelations

Sometimes dealing with being an adult with mental illness and autism you go day to day and just try to get by. Sometimes you feel so productive you are knocking shit out of the park left and right. Then other days, you realize things about yourself you had no idea

WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org: An Autistic and Bipolar Blogger’s Dilemma

WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org: An Autistic and Bipolar Blogger’s Dilemma

The author, who identifies as autistic and bipolar, shares their struggles with indecision, particularly regarding their blogging platform. They transitioned from Blogger to Ghost, and finally to WordPress.com for its versatility and quick approval of ads. Despite enjoying the community, they contem

Blogging on my phone

Blogging on my phone

I never tried this before so thought I'd give it a whirl. I'm lying in bed unable to fall asleep. I was tired all evening until I actually lie down then I'm wide awake. I'll talk asleep sooner or later. It is

Art, Errands, and the Mental Maze of the Everyday

Art, Errands, and the Mental Maze of the Everyday

Today being Sunday was kind of an off day for me. We ran some errands and came home and watched TV. I was really sleepy for a big part of the day. I didn't take a nap as I wanted to be up and spend time with my

Some Coming Changes

My original intention with this blog was to build a following and then do a subscription model. I may do that at some point. For now I have google adwords on there and will leave them for now so I can keep my blog free. I feel the topics I

Switching to Wordpress

Switching to Wordpress

I know I talked a lot about how much I loved ghost and how great ghost was, but there were a lot of features I wanted to be able to use I just couldn't use on Ghost so I switched it to here. Different look and feel but

Perils of Blogging and Other Self Inflicted Drama

Blogging on a platform like Ghost can be very freeing. I feel totally independent and in 100% in control of my own content and moderation and not subject to any CEO's whims. It is very fun and nice after years on social media platforms being dicked around by

Mental Health and Contrarianism

This is kind of a self reflective blog and something I've noticed about myself lately. Maybe its a mental health thing, maybe I'm just an oddball. But it seems in a lot of ways I never went with the flow. And I don't just

Some Random Updates

Good afternoon everyone. I should have something more meaty to post here, but I'm kind of wonky this afternoon but wanted to drop in. I'm still waiting to hear back from Google adsense on monetizng the blog. I currently have a free tier for anyone who

Battling the Fog

I've talked about this some in previous posts, but today I'm going to talk about brain fog. Something I think gets overlooked a lot when talking about healthcare or mental health in general. I had a bout with it this morning and it was rough. I

Morning Blog January 24, 2024

My first thought this morning is that because of how this blog is laid out, maybe I need to do my paintings horizitally or square. I think I'll do that going forward. I'm up around 4 a.m. today as usual. I always fall back to

Gray Days

Today at times was a gray day but I want to talk about them, because that's what this art reminds me of. Some days it's when I just feel tired or sad. Others it's more physical. My eyes with my glasses, sometimes they dry

My Finding a Blog Adventures

So I've only had this blog less than a week and its been a massive change for me, but a positive one. I wanted to find an independent space off of social media where I could post my art and mental health journey without relying on an algorithm,