I am angry. And because I am angry I should probably NOT post, but… oh well.

Normally a blog actually has to have an established readership and a fairly decent following before one has to start worrying about anonymous, hurtful comments and hate mail. But! Here just for you all I have found the super secret short cut. I give it to you now, free of charge, keys to receiving the same:

1) Live in the South
2) Hang out with people you can’t trust
3) Write about religion

VOILA! You’re done! Now just sit back and wait for the hate mail to start.

A blog is a very very very strange thing. It’s a new medium and the expectations of a blog are WILDLY different. I agree with Kyran over at Notes to Self about what a blog can be… with it might be. A blog is both public and personal and maybe my older friends are right to worry about that particular duality. I started writing for one reason only…. to write. I needed to write more and to have a blog is to have someone, anyone, even just one, to be accountable to for whether or not any writing was being done. When I chose to write publicly about things deeply personal and/or controversial I did my best to preface my thoughts with clarifications and explanations of where I was coming from and what my intentions were. Apparently sometimes that doesn’t matter.

In short, there has been a lot of drama over this “nutty blog” this week. And I won’t disclose the whole story, but suffice it to say that my inability to trust people? There is a reason for that.

*updated to add* One of the people involved has offered an apology, which I have accepted, though that does not mean that none of this ever happened or that I am not still working through my feelings on the matter.