I spend a great deal of time on Substack these days, following a number of good writers and substacks. It goes through my mind occasionally that maybe I should be doing what I am doing on Substack instead of here.

But here is the problem, the dilemma I face as a writer, a reader, a student, and as a blogger: I am just interested in too many things.

Let’s “count” the things I like to write about OR have written about over the years:

• Baseball History
• Poetry & Poets
• Book Reviews
  • Westerns
  • Horror
  • Classic Adventure
  • Pulp
  • Nordic Noir
  • Hardboiled Detective Fiction
  • Comic Books
  • Gothic Fiction
  • Western American History
  • World War II History
  • Vietnam War History
  • Korean War History
  • Theology
  • Short Stories
• Coffee
• Beer
• Sports
  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Soccer
• Minnesota
• Typewriters
• Montana
• Art
• Birds
• Music
  • The Grateful Dead
  • Jazz
  • Classic Country

That is just the tip of the iceberg. Hence, the root of the dilemma I continue to find myself facing on a regular basis.

What am I interested in now? What do I want to read about now? What has most of my attention now?

And ultimately for me as a blogger, what do I want to write about now?

I could start reviewing the albums I have been listening to with so much attention these past few months.

I could go through my 500+ drafts from previous blogs, update them, and repost them. That would mean posts about everything on my list above, and more.

But for now, it is a familiar dilemma that experience has taught me eventually does go away. An in-betweeness that is as uncomfortable as it is no doubt necessary.