Call me a Luddite, but I am finally starting a blog. This blog will be a little of everything, maybe all over the map—just like me. I will most likely write about what I know, which is my life—though I’ll leave work out of it.
As for the title, it reflects how I’m feeling right now. I’d sort of fancied myself, while not quite bohemian, a bit sophisticated. Well, I’ve come to the sinking realization that I live a completely bourgeois existence. To add further insult, nearly 2 years ago, I moved to a decidedly Red State exurb of Washington, DC.
This brings me to the subtitle of this blog, Bucking the Trends. You see I do not fit into most of the demographic trends for the community I live in: I’m a registered Democrat. I’m a liberal. I am a working mother (who, sin of all sins, actually wants to work). I am only going to have one child. I do not call myself a Christian. I do not scrapbook (or have any other such inane hobby). I do not read Oprah book club selections. I am a feminist.
So while I may lead a bourgeois, mainstream (at least as defined by others) lifestyle. I am not in the mainstream.
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