Goodness, it’s been a while! Though I set up this website in 2017, I continued blogging at millennialstar.org. But I began to notice that people were becoming less active on blogsites. I now realized that in about 2018 the world shifted to consuming video via YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok.
Then 2020 brought COVID and the death of my mother (Pat Chiu). The intense divisiveness associated with COVID and the outcome of the 2020 Presidential Election in the United States was disheartening. And I was having a lot of fun developing skills related to screenwriting and media production.
So I stepped away from MillennialStar.org.
In late 2022 I felt prompted to put Reluctant Polygamist on YouTube. That was daunting. I work for the government and we receive regular training about not making ourselves vulnerable to online threats. My brother was nearly killed in 2010 because of online stuff. I have other friends who have been subjected to the nasty and threatening side of the internet.
But ultimately it hasn’t been fear of hostility that deterred me. It was my perfectionism.
I don’t really do “makeup.” And I’m now officially able to qualify for senior discounts at most places.
But it’s become too bothersome to have “put Reluctant Polygamist on YouTube” hanging over me like a sword of Damocles. So in the next couple of months you’ll get me in all my amateur roughness reading the 2018 text of Reluctant Polygamist. On YouTube.
The Preface is live now – I’ll work on getting a new installment up each day until we’re done.