Enjoying writing on Bearblog

28 Feb, 2026

Some time ago or many daily blogposts earlier I changed to bearblog to do my writing. There were numerous potential reasons for this but only a few real ones. First off I loved writing on 11ty. I have almost gone back a few times. There’s something about it and its mission I love.

I thought it today when I was out walking and then enjoying a meal at home that grab food delivered for me. So a few reasons why I just continue.

• It’s easy to write here. I write all my things in iA Writer and start them often in the evenings on my iPhone. Then I decide at some spur of a moment I will not finish the same day. I want to just work on the thing that next morning in my MacBook. So I do. It’s easier using the web editor on the MacBook to copy and paste markdown. Adding an image or two where I want them is also easy. Then I get into this flow and pace of writing. It’s like I start one thing and other little feelings and thoughts. Likes and admonitions come crowding in. I just want that ease to continue. I want to only post a thing when I wish. And I want to work on it wherever before.
• The bearblog recent and trending discovery pages are fun. I now read them in RSS on my new calm reader called Current Reader but before on whetever else. I love the discovery part of things and the sense of community. When I want that. Sometimes I don’t so I don’t read the feeds. It’s better having them there and not choosing to read than not having them and wishing for such a thing.
• Goodness of fit and happiness writing. I enjoy writing daily on the little ups and downs of a forever foreigners life in Cambodia. I don’t do YouTube channels. I know a few people that do here. For me writing is more personal. More intimate. I get to enjoy the act of creation and not ever think of YouTube algorithms or monetizing or subscribers or comments. It feels to me I do the creation for its own sake. Like a practice I enjoy doing. Bear seems to most lean toward my desire for this with its simplicity. I don’t want to endlessly hack on themes or plugins. The real thing about the goodness of fit and joy writing is to do the things themselves. For their own sake.

So I write

And now I do it here on bear. This feels good to me it does all the things above plus lets me just feel this freedom to do more. Find more. Write more. So I should maybe call this “so I write more”.

Someone asked if I would leave this for that. No guarantees. What I do know now is that this is my little corner. Where my words come and go. And I want them to stay here. I don’t how long long. We bloggers tend to leave a thing and find another. It’s in our genes I guess. We want to find a thing that twirls some knobs that perhaps we did not know we had.

Same with me. Now though this place gives me plenty. Thanks Herman. Thanks to the people whose work and play I can find daily when I wish. I don’t do blogging challenges. I’ve never needed them as some reason to write. I really need no reason. Most of the stuff here started as a different idea and kinda morphed or I just gently go. That’s the thing I really need most is that freedom. This has been a good place for that for me.

I always like including some photo that sparks some little connection thing. This was Da Nang years ago. One of my favorite places ever. It offers river and sea and food and the wonderful kindness of Vietnamese people there. I was last there in 2023. Not a favorite visit. I’ll get back.

Meanwhile this blog is baked I think.

See ya later.