quitter

I just quit the Philly Moms blog, it just wasn't for me.

I kinda thought that Philly Moms would be a blog about oh, I don't know, Momming in Philly. It isn't, really. I thought it would be more of a secret society of mom's trying to raise their kids in an urban, urbane, innercity, nittygritty setting and all the unique and wonderful and awful challenges that we face. Could I have brought that there? Absolutely. I could have done what ever I wanted. But I already do that over here. And I think I can do it better here, on my own terms and in my own language.

I appreciate the practice of more direct and less personal writing that Philly Moms afforded me. I am sorta a shoot from the hip kind of girl, and Philly Moms forced me to slow down and realize that people aren't there because they know and love me and my nutsiness like they are over here at Jakezilla. People are there for a whole different kind of experience. I took a lot from that experience. I will continue to do so. But as a reader instead of a contributor.

I'm such a quitter. But I'm okay with that. Quitting it truthfully felt better than being accepted to write for it. Thirty two and a half years have brought me to the realization that I can't do everything, and as long as I try something with all my heart I can make a decision to either keep at it or stop doing it, which ever gives me greater pleasure in life.

Spouting a bunch of nonsense here? Keep at it.
Philly Moms? It was good while it lasted but now it's time to stop and try my hand at something else.

Now to decide what that something else is...

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ps- here is my bio from Philly Moms. Maybe you'll learn something about me.

Lora lives in South Philadelphia with her kid, her cat, and her husband. She moved to the area in 1994 to enroll at West Chester University, and relocated into the city in 1999 to attend graduate school at Temple University. Lora works full-time at a non-profit public health organization. She transferred from social work to the parenting professional field shortly after the birth of her son, Jacob, in hopes that she would learn what the heck she was supposed to do with the boy so she wouldn’t screw him up.

Lora will be the first to tell you that she was shocked at how motherhood brought this busy little city girl lifestyle to a grinding standstill. Now that her son is a toddler, things are starting to fall into place a bit and she is figuring out how to make a new kind of "normal" for herself and family. She blogs about this (and just about everything else) at Jakezilla, and she posts pictures of all the crazy things she sees around Philly at Oh, the Urbanity!