Five Years Ago Today

Fiat Lux came into being on September 1st 2003.

How the blog got started is a pretty prosaic story: I was feeling a little homesick and nostalgic, it was a slow weekend, and a friend who’d recently taken to blogging was urging me to give it a try. So I grabbed a copy of Moveable Type, got some web hosting, and did so.

The past 5 years have seen me through a move to the ‘burbs, grad school, three jobs, comedy, tragedy, and plenty of just plain living. My blogging frequency (and focus) has been all over the place. One thing hasn’t changed, though. I ended my first post by saying:

What next? Who knows. But I think that I’d like to blog the journey.

I still don’t know what’s coming next, but I still want to blog the journey. So here’s to the next five years! Let’s see where they lead.

And thank you for being with me as I do it.