Moving homes after a decade feels a bit odd but exciting.

I have contemplated moving from a WordPress-hosted blog to one on a URL I control for nearly five years now. I have spent more time than I care to admit contemplating it back and forth before always deciding to hold ground on where I had been the whole time. There is something comforting in the familiar, after all.

But today I make the move. It is a bit of an odd domain and feels slightly egotistical but it also feels personal to me. I am David Music. I am me. It feels right on some level. I have fired up a new WordPress theme, migrated all my old posts, and braced myself for the moment of uncertainty that will surely strike me when I go to press the “Publish” button for the first time here.

In a few days, I plan to post a note over at the old Box Thoughts site announcing this. But I will wait because there is a thrill in writing somewhere that no one knows about again. This will also give me an opportunity to work out any kinks with the theme or pages that moved over if anything does happen to pop up along the way.

All that for background, my single biggest thought is actually attaching my name to what I am writing. Of course, everything at the original Box Thoughts was straight from me, but there will always be something different about it when it is your name in the URL. People can more easily point a finger at and know who to shout at. It will be easier for me to step aside on a thought because it may be more controversial than I want to be at that moment. Or I may choose to go more directly after something because I am proudly attaching my name. Who knows? That is the exciting part!

Then there is the thought that this is just my way of breaking from the pandemic. The last two years have been the most difficult ones for me to write during. Between big things happening at my real job and a pandemic raging around the world, it was not the easiest window for expressing myself.

We shall see how it goes.