Now what?

After my flurry of daily (and sometimes twice daily) posts at the end of December, I'm kind of at a threshold. (Appropriate metaphor for the new year, no?)

As I have more time on my hands, I find I'm able to put more attention to this blog. I like that. I would like to go back to my original intention of publishing something five days a week. But most bloggers will tell you that one of the biggest challenges is coming up with topics.

I think the first time it happened here was in the very first week of writing here. "It's happened just as I feared," I wrote. "I have nothing to say." Well, I did have something to say. (I always have something to say, whether it should be spoken or not.) The real question is: is it blog-worthy?






To help me, I've come up with a few themes. I will try to have a weekly post on each of these topics:

• Family and pets
• Food
• Fiction
• Wellness and health (for the absolute beginner)

And the remaining post will come from one of the following:

• Crafts, photography, decor, home improvements
• Travel, near and far (I'd like to do some posts about sight-seeing in my own city)
• Rants (but not too often; Stephen doesn't like them)
• Humour (usually this is really quite unintentional)
• Retirement, career (so much is unknown right now)
• Reflections (like Enough, about doing the best we can, or Foul-weather friend of the class nerd, about my faith)

I think most of my posts over the past three-and-a-half (!!!) years of blogging would fall into one of those categories.

Am I missing any topics? If you're a blogger, how do you keep yourself inspired to keep on writing?