Shalom

Hello, my name is Zoe (HI ZOE!), and it's been a little over 90 days since my family found out about my (real) blog.

There are things I want to write that I don't want them knowing about. There are things I want to write that I wouldn't mind if they knew, but I don't want to talk with them about. You know, like the fact that they're planning a trip to the West Coast in October and I have no interest in seeing them at all while they're here. Little things like that.

I greatly value the feedback I get on my other blog from the people who comment. That's why keeping a diary wouldn't cut it. I don't really know enough people that I could have had asked all my people to visit my blog. So I couldn't password-protect mine.

Initially I did not want to start another, secret blog. I told my family I wouldn't have one. But I've changed my mind. Quite honestly, I'm much less emotionally healthy now than I was four months ago. There's nothing I value more than my mental health. Nothing. Because if you're not sane, you can't appreciate anything. I try to take very good care of my mental health.

And so, after batting around the idea with a friend, as of yesterday, this blog has been born. It's ironic - that I need to hide from my family in order to talk with .... everyone else in the entire world. But I do, so here I am.