Journey Marie
December to March without a single post….still better than May to December. Updates first: I’ve added a new great-granddaughter. She is as beautiful as her mother and shows a happy disposition unless her tummy is hurting. She brings my total of great-grandchildren to seven and they are all beautiful, smart, and sweet. Not that I’m prejudiced or anything. Our family was devoid of babies and toddlers for more than 12 years. Having babies around has been a wonderful blessing for us all.
Other than the babies, school has consumed all my time for the past three months. This has been my semester for dropping things. First I dropped my Buddhism class in Owensboro to watch Damion and Elaina while their mother was at school. Then I dropped my early morning Christianity course because I needed more free time in the mornings to do lab work for the Photojournalism class on Thursday afternoons. Now I’ve dropped the Photojournalism major altogether. I was spending way too much time on classes that covered activities and topics I don’t ever expect to use.
I started it, mainly, as a way to improve my photography, but it wasn’t really doing that. Their classes are geared toward news photography or studio work. My main interest, other than snapshots of the kids, is landscape and macro photography. I’d like to learn more about shooting animals in nature too, but that’s way down the line. I knew that they wouldn’t cover the kinds of photos I want to take, but I didn’t anticipate that the classes would be so time consuming.
I had no time left for writing, this blog is a case in point, or for upkeep on clients websites, or for keeping my church’s website updated. I haven’t touched my WIP for nearly a year. I do still intend to pursue the Religious Studies degree and I think I will add a minor in history. I feel like these things will give me a stronger foundation for my personal writing goals.
So I am, once again, re-visioning my life. I still have an online Religious Studies class and hope to register for online history and geography classes this fall. Then I’ll head back to campus next spring to take another run at finishing up my second Bachelor’s degree. Along the way, I will be considering the possibility of a Master’s in Creative Writing. That has always be my first love. I do want to improve my photography and learn to use my camera better, but it doesn’t look like school is the way to get there.
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