Little Wandering Wren …. chats!

Hello! Happy Sunday, today I’m in Queensland for the Problogger Conference. Problogger is my first ever opportunity to meet other Aussie bloggers on a mass scale - there are over 500 of us gathered for two days of networking, training and workshops. It gives me scope to reflect on my Little Wandering Wren journey and plan my future blog strategy. I learnt many things over the weekend but one thing resonated with me most a quote from the Problogger founder Darren’s Mum which said  Your life will be better of you take actions  on the things, you like to avoid I have been pondering for a while certain aspects of my:  “Crazy soccer mum, trying to become Zen yoga mum” life. The first being how appropriate is it to refer to myself as a Crazy Soccer Mum when my youngest is twenty years old ... and the soccer season is over! Perhaps there’s a small element (ok a massive, whopping element) of hanging onto a past identity, uncertain what to replace it ...

I write therefore I am! Oh my golly, gosh this weekend I'm going to a Problogger conference. Not only that, but I've booked to have dinner with the Travel Bloggers! To say I'm going to be punching above my weight is an understatement. More about this later in the week, unless I've been knocked out cold, but for now the organisers are running a competition asking: what inspires you to blog? what inspires your blogging? what about your blog inspires you? what is the inspiration behind your blog?   So I thought I'd have a go, as it is something which I am often asked.  Shortly after the "Wow, I didn't know you did that!" (read 'could do that!') I get a mixed reaction from friends and colleagues about my blogging. There is no doubt there are many in the nonblogging community who just do not get it! They see a solitary life, home alone, just me and my computer typing away. Waiting for some sort of sad validation from a whol...