Confessions
Many thanks to comments from Kip Jones. I look forward to following his blog and learning from him.
In regards to delving deeper, as a relatively newbie blogger I recognize that I tend to focus energy on the formatting of the theme, etc. Having my theme go down this past week didn’t help (thank goodness for talented and generous son’s who drop everything to go into the WP backdoor to fix my errors.
I’m looking at some professional wp themes to help me solve my needs. And, I worry about venturing to the other side of more “vanity blogging” – is that a term? I am reminded of John Van Maanen’s description of confessional tales (Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography) “In unskilled hands, a wild and wooly involuted tract is produced that seems to suck its author (and reader) into a black hole of introspection; the confessional is obsessed with method, not subject, and drifts toward a single-minded, abstract representation …. “(p. 92-93) I am certainly not a newbie to qualitative research but it appears that I maybe overcompensating out of concern that my blog posts might read like a prolific confessional tweeter.
