Why I Won’t Make Fun of My Past Self

Recently I’ve been working on reorganizing my blog, which has had me unearthing many old posts that I had all but forgotten about. (Northernwords is already 5 years old–time flies!)

As I began to re-read some of my old posts, immediately a slew of berating thoughts began to fill my head. I picked apart every sentence I had written, every picture I had taken, and wanted to do it all over.

How could I have ever wanted to share a blog that was so awful?

Then after several moments of scathing...