Things I've Found In Pockets

Remember when blogging was new? We overshared our lives and posted embarrassing pictures of ourselves and our small children. In 2007, I had a BlackBerry. Remember those? I would hijinks a patchy internet connection in the middle of the rainforest and type posts on that teeny keyboard, upload a blurry picture and that was blogging .  It never occurred to us to monetise anything, and SEO hadn't been invented yet. Memes were made up and we gifted random awards to one another. Some of us got massive book deals. Others of us kept parts of our lives hidden. Gradually, the blogosphere became corporate, our posts were copied and pasted and monetised by faceless influencers, and we deleted most of our children's photos.  My first ever photo upload  Wow, this is an actual watercolour I did and turned into something pretty in like 2010 Looking through those old photo uploads is taking me waaaaay back, and it's tempting to turn this whole post into a rabbit hole down memory l...