pat loughery

Faithful readers of this site know that I haven’t written much in the last couple of years.  There’s a lot of reasons for that, and I’m pretty sure I’ve even written about it before.  Intense grad school work, job shifts, young kids and a variety of other interests have kept me out of the loop.

But I still enjoy writing; I just know that what I’ve written about before isn’t as interesting these days.  So I’m shifting this site.  I’m doing two things that I want you to be aware of.

1) I’m changing the technology underneath the site, from WordPress to Posterous.  Most of you won’t care, but for those that do, Posterous has been a publishing engine for my WordPress blog (autoposting from http://patl.posterous.com to http://www.patloughery.com/ and to my Facebook or Twitter).  I’m going to use Posteorus as the main site now, and will remap the domain names so that patloughery-dot-com IS my posterous site.  Or maybe I’ll make it blog-dot-patlougher-dot-com, and finally get around to building a main page which is just a portal to all my other sites on the net.

But mostly I’m doing that because if I break the old technology, it also breaks the old reason for the blog existing.  I don’t have much to say anymore about church planting in postern suburbia; my head just isn’t there.  It’s good work to do, it’s just not where my spirit is.  And so rather than just not having anything to say, as has been the case for a while, I’m going to do part 2:

2) I’m broadening the scope of the blog to simply be me posting on stuff that interests me.  Posterous makes it easy for me to dash off quick (or long) posts, to forward other interesting things, to embed media, and to do it all from email.  It seems to fit what my head is doing lately.

I know that in doing this, the site (and I) will become less interesting to the few of you who stuck around for that topic set, but I’m not giving you much these days anyway.  I hope you continue on this journey.