We Are Live! | A Mindful Life / Kathryn Harper

It’s very late, so this will be brief. My absolutely hardworking, clever, dedicated, intelligent, ever-loving husband spent the majority of his time from Sunday until just now (except when he was at work) redesigning my website and moving me to a new host. He also imported all my old posts in such a way that all previous links work. In other words, if you linked to a post of mine in the past at the old domain name (kathrynpetro.com), that link is not dead, even though I’ve changed domain names. He also concatenated my many old categories into a nice baker’s dozen (which I selected loosely based on Library of Congress subject headings, because I’m a kind of nerd). He’s brilliant like that.

I love this new decor, don’t you? It is simpler, more streamlined, less crazy on the eyes. The colors are subdued but rich, which is how I like to envision the life of the mind — a fertile, quiet place inside which exists abundant treasure. There’s an elegance to this design as well. And the photo at top (and on my main page) is mine. I took it September 2005 on my visit to upstate New York. Please look around and visit all the links in the top menu bar and sidebar. Make yourself at home.

You may find the formatting on some of my old Movable Type posts a little wonky (for example, perhaps paragraphs are not separated by double space), but overall Husband did an incredible job cleaning up my crappy HTML and CSS code and ensuring the WordPress PHP code was accurate. This, by the way, is my anniversary present. Our first anniversary is coming up March 13; the traditional first-year gift is paper, and since this blog is a form of journal which in an earlier time would have been on paper, that’s how I’m categorizing it.

I’ve been feeling out of sorts all week, and I swear it’s because I haven’t been writing here. I also haven’t been visiting many blogs. Work has been busy. Some of the weirdness is also due to the mingling of two approaching anniversaries — my wedding and my father-in-law’s death three weeks after. I find myself tearing up for no apparent reason, and I know the wellspring of mourning is pushing up. But it will all be okay, especially because I have my new digs. It makes me happy and keeps me sane.

Please do leave a comment! I extend a special invitation to new readers or lurkers to say hello. Try it! A simple greeting would make this post a housewarming. And please — update your blogroll and RSS subscriptions now to the new url: www.kathrynpetroharper.com/mindfullife.