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Update! Update!June 22, 2011 No, I'm not dead or hiding under a rock. Getting on Facebook seriously changed my pattern of online activity, and it's also raised my expectations: I'm beginning to believe that there really is an audience out there! One of my big reasons for getting on Facebook was a dawning awareness of how important it was becoming for local information sharing and organizing. Boy, was I right on that one. I think I've been to more concerts, readings, and other gatherings in the five months I've been on Facebook than in the previous several years. I'm now managing the FB page for the West Tisbury library and feeling more locally useful than I have in a long time. Not long after getting on FB, I stopped writing in the Bloggery. If I posted news, comments, or photos on Facebook, I'd have feedback within a few hours -- often within minutes. Audience has always been crucial to my writing. One may write in solitude, but without continual input from the outside world my writing starts stagnating, and if my writing isn't being heard or read somewhere it's hard to convince myself that it's worth doing. The influx of words, ideas, and pictures from other people's lives was woken Squatters' Speakeasy back up. Just as important, it's made me believe in the possibility of getting the book out there when it's done, even if the island's (expletives deleted) bookstores and newspapers ignore it as they did The Mud of the Place. This is good. Putting all this together, I've decided to start a more conventional blog, tentatively titled "From the Seasonally Occupied Territories." It'll focus on Martha's Vineyard, because Martha's Vineyard is the lens through which I see the world, but it should be of interest to readers who've never been here. I'm currently trying to master WordPress, or trying to make the time to master WordPress. When I do, you'll hear about it. After a discouraging winter, Travvy and I have had a wonderful spring. APDT (Association of Pet Dog Trainers) Rally has been a, well, dogsend. Like AKC Rally, it has three levels: 1, 2, and 3, instead of Novice, Advanced, and Excellent. Each level is more challenging and also more interesting than its AKC equivalent, but even more important to me and my reactive dog, the trial venues have been less chaotic and less stressful, the people more friendly and encouraging than in AKC. Trav got his RL1 (Level 1) title in April, and this past weekend he got the first leg on his RL2 (Level 2) -- off-leash. Here's Trav and me with our "bling" from April:
Trav has his own Facebook page (@ Trav Sturgis), and circle of friends that's remarkable for its internationality: Canada, Ireland, England, France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Croatia, Russia, Japan, Argentina . . .
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