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August 23, 2006
Recapitulation
It’s been just about a year now since I started this blog. I haven’t been nearly as frequent or free and easy a poster as I’d hoped or envisioned. I apologize.
(If you apologize in the forest, and nobody’s there to hear, did it happen? )
It’s a good time to think back on why I started. Self-publishing is kind of fun, of course, even while it’s also a self-imposed nagging burden…. Homework you give yourself! But I started because I had been in a state of wondering what I should do with my working life, which at the moment seems terribly stale and meaningless. And I thought, yeah, if I could do anything, without regard to reality (i.e., funding), what would I want to do, let’s see… well, I’d like to start a women’s sports magazine. One that would be half spectator rag to cover women’s sports (at high levels, but including the citizen competitor) and half “service magazine” that would include workout advice, research and product reviews (again, aimed at the adult competitor in anything). Then, once the brand was strong and we were ragingly profitable, we’d sponsor and host our own events (races, horse shows, 3 on 3 tourneys, whatever) where the proceeds would go to a foundation. The foundation would award grants to organizations worldwide doing projects involving women’s health, nutrition and sports, particularly in places where this is not traditionally done. In the end, that kind of development work would be the true mission of my fantasy organization.
Sigh.
So I can’t even manage to make a weekly post about sports on my own blog. But I am going to save the world via my delusional career strategy. Ahem. Still, nice idea, isn’t it?
I recall the audience I had in mind, whom I was also going to write about. And it makes me happy to think of them, though I have largely failed to write about them. Friends, a cohort that could make up our own splendid Title Nine catalog.
Lou: rower, mother of one, French and Spanish teacher.
Nicola: sailor, physical therapist, comedian.
Cheryl: runner, mother of two, project manager.
Evelyn: rower, personal trainer, friend.
Charlotte: swimmer, innkeeper, rowing coach, letter-writer.
Penny: basketball player, mother of two, nonprofit consultant, activist.
Barbara: competitor, grandmother of four, artist.
Felice: tennis player, mother of two, import consultant.
Ruth: equestrian and swimmer, realtor, survivor.
Melanie: outdoorswoman, translator, world citizen.
Lisa: avid surfer, mother of two, graduate student in wastewater management.
Nomi: biathlete, reluctant lawyer, chair of the Nordic Commission in Steamboat.
Saiya: rower, mother of two, psychiatrist.
Carin: mad rock climber, mother of two, part-time lawyer, high school crew coach.
Jenny: yogi, mother of one, professor.
CB: hockey player, mother of three, marketing consultant.
Kris: runner, mother of three, railroad safety engineer.
And that’s just a quick look—wow.
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