Who is kmbflack anyway?

I have been trying to decide who I become in this nebulous every changing world of Web 2.0 and social networking… do I make it separate? do I make it 1 in the same? I am most certainly the same person either way. I’ve enjoyed just being Kimala in the virtual world for 2 years. It gave me a chance to explore and expand my horizons without the need to constantly be and educator. In the beginning of my explorations I was extremely concerned about letting one interfere with the other. But at the end of the day— it is still the same ol’ me sitting whereever I may be controlling the on/off button on my computer.

I love my title for this blog and find a hard time coming up with something better. Resilience is something that will carry me throughout life. Life is about reinventing yourself and being strong through the good and the bad. ReSLience is a play on spelling… a typo those who know me well enough were worried I actually conceived as the correct spelling… and so fitting for what filled most of these posts month after month.

Honestly though… if all I am to do is fill this blog with findings from SL… I find it lacks the depth of what I hope to do and what I take comfort in with this blog. I don’t want to lose that and I love the personal journal style it has transformed into for my RL and my SL over the past 2 years.

So… hard core SL bloggers… I apologize — I wish I could be just that — but I am not. RL moms and others… I wish I could be just that — and I am not. I have this little thing I do called SL and I love to weave it in. I am one in the same. Kimala is much better looking and can wear a new hairdo in a flash with a wardrobe to die for… but other than that — the “what’s inside” is what’s inside. Kimmer might even like to blog here from time to time as the education world in Arizona isn’t always ready for her just yet. Kimmer has found fun exploration in the SL education community and begun some incredible projects… but perhaps at the end of the day… Kimmer needs to contribute in her own identity to the Innovate Classrooms blog that is part of work.

Most importantly… I hope my babbling has given you a bit of insight into the unfinished nature that really is me. I am far from perfect. I try very hard. I have high aspirations. I love to dive into anything head first, feet first, whole body, and enthusiastically. I will open my heart to you. I will try to be a good friend as best I know how. I will let go only after told directly to go away. Surprisingly enough to me in life… there are people who actually do say that. Took me 40 years to figure that out.. but some people really do decide to write people off, and when they do… they mean it… But… the sun will still rise and set and life will go on… and at the end of the day…. when it does set again… you have to decide how resilient you are.. and what is worth time and energy and love.