Cheers. I’m Heather, a fifty-something in Minnesota. I’m a marketing and digital professional by day, an obsessed dog-owner by night. I workout a lot. I’m married without children. I used to keep an “online journal” that I started in 1997 (and for the record, that was before blogging or social networks were a thing). I kept the online journal a secret from those who knew me in real life back then because I thought it was weird. Now I realize I was just ahead of my time. Lol. Twenty years later, we are solid in the age of influencers, content creators, social networks and an interactive industry that I’ve been lucky to call my profession for the past couple of decades.

At times, I miss the good ole days of the small, tightly knit online journaling community. It felt like a hodgepodge of nerds and writers and lovers of HTML. But the only thing constant is change and it’s been a beautiful industry to watch grow up (not without the bad sides–but I’m keeping it positive here).

I don’t blog much anymore. In fact, I let my domain name expire years ago. But as my career went more into management, I began to feel the distance from the actual “making of things.” I found that I missed writing and creating which is how I find myself back here twenty years later.