Oh. Here I am.

I’m dealing with a split personality. Not only do I still have my Blogger blog, but I also have a totally fake WordPress blog that I set up to experiment with. Who am I? Where is the real Ann?

I’ve been asking that for about 40 years. I’m still not sure of the answer.

But for now, I have to try to answer, What is she about?

That’s because this WordPress blog is about, well, Ann Kroeker. My Blogger blog was about Ann Kroeker, but it was all tied up with The Contemplative Mom website. Since the book is out of print and I’m trying to reinvent my writing life–beef it up, ramp it up–well, I’m trying to find the right words, the right title, to best express what I’m about…and accommodate what I will be about in the future, as far as any of us can project.

I suspect I’ll change it a few times before I go public and invite my readers to visit.

In the meantime, I’ve titled it “All the Right Words,” which seems a bit presumptuous. I don’t have all the right words. Sometimes I don’t have any words to speak of, and those that I have are often the wrong ones. I even wrote text for an apology card about saying all the wrong things simply because I do it so often and could really use a card like that. Oh, and let’s not even talk about my track record at sensitive events, like funerals. Funerals deserve some good words. A few right ones. I tend to say all the wrong ones.

So it really isn’t a very accurate title for a blog or anything associated with me.

Maybe “A few good words.”

Or just: “A few words.”

Trouble with that one is how wordy I can be. It simply wouldn’t be accurate. Just ask anyone who has received an e-mail from me. They all complain about it. I’m writing to ask a simple question, and they have to sift through seven paragraphs of Deep Thoughts, and somewhere in the middle of philosophical and theological musings is the question, “Can Olivia come for a sleepover on Saturday?”

Perhaps my title anxiety is associated with title envy: I may be influenced by Mary DeMuth’s blog and website, “Relevant Blog” and “Relevant Prose.” I like that. One would hope to be relevant. Maybe I’m looking for a close cousin to her titles. For that reason alone, I should probably change it.

Well, I’ll fiddle with it.

Because I do hope to find….

all the right words.

The best words.

Adequate words.

That wouldn’t be a very enticing title, though, would it? “Adequate Words.”

I’ll keep thinking.