A New Name and a Re-New

If you’ve ever started a blog (and abandoned a blog) then you may know how it feels to go back to your blog and to see that the date of your last post was months ago.  You look at that date and you can’t believe that it’s been so long.  You look at the date and you remember your vigorous assertions that you were going to post every day or three times a week or three times a day or whatever…

And then four months go by.  It’s a bit painful.  It’s so painful in fact that I found it hard to come to the blog.  I avoided it.  It becomes and harder and harder to restart.

But then I came back.  I looked things over and it seemed okay.  It wasn’t dead.  I hadn’t told anyone about the blog yet anyway.  I think that only two people have actually taken a look at it.  So all is not lost.

I came back and I did the work to change the name of the blog as it had been to the name that you now see.  If you were one of the two people who had visited this blog in the past then you will know that the blog used to be called P-rnfree.com.  I put the dash in there so that the word porn wasn’t actually in the title, but of course I wasn’t fooling anyone – certainly not the search engines.

You see, this blog, although it isn’t specifically about porn and not every post will reference porn, its roots are in my struggle to stop looking at porn and what it is like to quit and to be free from porn – thus the name – “Porn Free”.

But as I was preparing to finally get the word out and tell the world about my blog, my wife did a search on the blog to find it, because she couldn’t remember the exact address and she discovered that a link for my blog didn’t actually come up right away, but what did come up were a lot of links for free porn.

Hmmmm…

Not exactly what I want people to be wading through if they’re looking for a site that talks about being free of porn.  Some people made the point that maybe that’s actually a good thing because then when people are looking for free porn, they might actually stumble upon my site and click on it and find that it will change their life, or maybe they’ll see that there are no pictures of the sort they’re looking for and they’ll go back to their search.

So I decided to change the name to something that wouldn’t yield so many hits related to porn when people look for it on the internet.  Thus the blog is now called The Slow Search for Sweet Solid Ground.  It’s a lot of s’s, I know.  It’s got some good assonance.  Too much?

Well, I’m going to take some time over the next few days to talk about why I’ve gone with this title and why I have come to love this title.  I also wanted to announce that I’m back.  I’m posting again, and for some reason I believe that this time I’m going to post regularly.

Maybe letting people know that the blog is here will help.  It’s easier not to post when you know that no one is reading.  But anyway, this is not the beginning of the slow search, but it’s the official beginning of me writing about it.  Enjoy!

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