You’re Starting a Blog?

Why? It’s 2025. Blogs stopped being mainstream and cool in 2012 when YouTube bloggers and Buzzfeed quizzes took over the internet’s attention and begged the question high school literature students have been asking for decades: why read what you can watch?

Of course there are still active blogs. Tons of people make at least part of their living from their blog. Usually these are blogs that actually answer some sort of question or offer up a recipes to probably the best cookies you’ve ever had (not kidding). Plus Substack and the notion of long form written content has become increasingly popular. Ironically being referenced a ton on TikTok. The thing is, I don’t have a ton of answers to questions the general public are asking. I don’t create recipes. So, we’re back to the initial question.

There are a couple things at play here. First and foremost, I already have this website (so no need for Substack). Despite having pursued acting for most of my life and the fact that I have been a professional working actor for about five years now, I have resisted setting up a website like the plague. It just never felt like it was worth it to spend money on a site that just sits there until I need to send the like to reps or casting. It still doesn’t really make sense to me. So, this is partly me putting it to use.

The second thing is rather simple: I need to write more. I’m a big advocate for creating your own work. I have a few active ideas for plays and movies, some farther along than others. The idea is the easy part. The practice of sitting down and putting pen to paper is what’s difficult. This is a place to implement the practice. I also need a place to write down my endless thought spirals. Of course, I could just journal, but that would mean you guys would miss out. I am nothing, if not a woman of the people.

Lastly, and arguably most important, is my all consuming penchant for the 2000s. I mean that was the media that raised me. Maybe it’s the impending recession, or maybe I’m using nostalgia to idealize the era I grew up in. Either way, blogging feels like just a taste of the womanhood I was promised. I mean who doesn’t want to sit down at their laptop and feel like Andie Anderson or Jenna Rink.

So here I am. On my own little corner of the internet. Just for you.