If you’ve managed to make it to this blog post, you’ve probably overcome the overwhelming disappointment that the “Big News” was simply that I had launched “JohnMilner.ca” and have moved on to wondering why I posted my first blog before I launched the website.
The answer to that particular pondering is:
(a) I wanted to get in the habit of writing a regular blog. Going forward, I will be trying to providing updates every Friday or Saturday night. Years ago, I had a blog that I would update every Friday night, I think it was while I was working at Coles. I actually enjoyed it because it gave me a chance to reflect on my week. Going forward, this blog will be one-part weekly update, one-part random stuff that crosses my mind throughout the week.
(b) I also wanted to talk a little bit about what led me to create “JohnMilner.ca.” My sister has her own blog (Cathy Unfiltered – A single Mom of an almost teenage boy who is real, authentic, unfiltered.) and domain and so I started thinking that it’d be cool to have my own Dot-Com website. Initially I was going to transfer my Track Talk blog into TrackTalk.com.
However, I decided to enlarge the scope and, in addition to continuing Track Talk, showcase:
Some of my writing – Most of what is published now is fiction that I wrote sometime ago. Going forward, I will be posting some non-fiction pieces that I’d like to work on. I would also like to get the novels I have written (but have never been able to seriously work on getting published) posted here, but given that these are full-length 90,000 to 100,000 word publications, it may be a while in coming.
My history articles – This is a lot like my writing in that it’s articles I’ve written in the past (as well as chapters of my would-be book History in Your Back Yard). However, maybe I will be inspired to write some new articles and post them here.
Wrestling Recaps – One of my favorite things to do on my blogs of the past was to watch old WWF house shows and write about them. My wrestling recaps, much like Track Talk, will be an acquired taste but luckily there are probably a few people out there who will enjoy them.
My Portfolio – Think of this as my “Brag Book.” This are examples of my writing, graphic and web design, video production and even some social media from across the full breadth of my career in communications-related fields.
So, you may ask “Why is this JohnMilner.ca and not JohnMilner.com?” Well, initially I had thought of moving all of this over to Wix. However, as much as Wix makes more a much better looking website, I couldn’t see where I could post articles, etc. and be able to link directly to individual articles. Maybe you can, I just couldn’t see where it was easy to do. WordPress – where TrackTalk and other websites I’ve worked on reside – isn’t the easiest thing to work with, especially with this whole block thing going on but I’ve been using it for a while now.
I had thought of getting the dot-com domain but WordPress offered a dot-ca domain instead and being Canadian, I decided to go with JohnMilner.ca instead.
So there’s a very long story but I hope you enjoy your stay here on the site.
johnmilner.ca 