She's Baaaaack

After a bit of a break from blogging, I've decided to return to it. The reason? Last night as I crawled into bed I realized that for the first time in a long time I'm content with life. The past few months have been full of some crazy emotional ups and downs as I try to adjust to life after Mississippi, struggle alongside some friends who are struggling and trying to figure out what the heck I'm doing with my life. Now that I'm in a place of stability, I have been reflecting a lot and really want an outlet for all these thoughts. Thus the return of the blog.

There are going to be a few changes. First, readers have to be invited to read this jumble of words and thoughts. No more public access after having an encounter with a a scary dude at the library where I work. I'll talk about that later. So if you have a link to my blog on your blog, you can probably just delete it so that folks won't try to go to my blog and then be sorely disappointed when they can't because they aren't in the "Cool Kids Who Know Becca Club". Second, I'm hoping this blog will be a bit more honest than it was in the past. With a limited number of people reading this thing, I hope to not censor my thoughts by only talking about the safe topics. I know that a lot of people in our church and community read my "Becca in the Bayou" blog, which was fine because the point was to update all the peeps who supported me with money and prayers while in Mississippi. I love all of those people, I just don't really want them to read my blog anymore. I'm thinking particularly about the teenagers in our youth group that I help out with. I realize that maybe I shouldn't be so guarded, but I really don't want to have to explain to parents why their kids are suddenly changing their views and opinions about religion and politics and the world in general. Plus, my interactions with them have been fascinating and will probably be the topic of a few posts, so I wouldn't want to write about them and embarrass them. I think I will primarily limit readership to those of you have blogs of your own. Sort of an "I'll show you mine if you show me yours" kind of philosophy.

With all that said, here is a sneak peek at some of the topics that have been on my heart lately and I'll be writing about in the coming weeks:

Spring Break trip to Gulfport
substitute teaching
crazy stalker at the library
tattoos
life at home with the parents
forgiveness
my friend Jessie
the YMCA
books
my laughable attempt at learning Spanish
upcoming trip to Mexico
muh Dawg
more forgiveness
church politics
my frustrations with KBCO
sex
my rediscovery of Pat Benatar
going Under the Overpass and Into the Wild
Brian's wedding
plans for the future

Hopefully that teaser will help you stay tuned.