Identity Crisis
In case you haven't noticed, I haven't been updating as much as I used to. The reasons are many but they probably boil down to the fact that Tremendous Trifles has been suffering a crisis of identity. I have been rather unhappy with the site for a while and I have decided that it is time for a new beginning. And because of a very stupid mistake that cost me all the template changes I had made on the old site (including grueling hours of searching the web for stupid quotes), this will very truly feel like to me like a beginning. I am not going to do anything so drastic as deleting my old posts, but I am going to make an effort to change the atmosphere of the site a bit.First, I am going to try to get out of the bad habit of making this a site in which I merely forward people to articles by other authors that I happen to find interesting. I started Tremendous Trifles as an outlet of creativity and as fun way to improve my writing skills, but recently I have frankly been too lazy to do anything of the sort. That has got to stop. If you are interested in checking out the sites that I consider to have consistent intelligent insight into the dilemmas of our world then you can click on the permanent links on the sidebar to such websites as that of First Things Magazine and the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Also, my good friend Frank tends to have links on his page to the type of articles to which I used to link here. If you haven't visited his site, you can find it at www.excessivecatholicism.blogspot.com.
So do I have a new vision now? Well, not exactly. The website's name, after all, is Tremendous Trifles, and it should continue to deal with all sorts of random topics that may interest me. That said, I am going to make an effort to make the website more creative. If I live up to my promises, this means that I will do as much of my own writing as possible (instead of merely posting things written by other people); that I will try to write about a larger variety of topics; that I will include, hopefully, some short fiction; and that I will occasionally post some of my own artwork. In addition, since I am about to get started with the reading programs suggested by The Well-Educated Mind and The Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan (both of which I highly recommend), then I am going use this blog as the place to write down my reflections on these readings. Although I won't formally start with the program for maybe one or two months, I will probably post my thoughts on the books I have on my own reading list right now, such as Story of a Soul, The Cube and the Cathedral, Crime and Punishment, and Pride and Prejudice (I got a lot of gift certificates for graduation!).
I not sure how this new experiment will turn out, but I thank anyone who decides to come along for the ride.
posted by ertandberni @ 1:26 PM
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