New Year, New Blog

Admittedly, it is borderline intimidating to be back on the blog after this many months of a hiatus. To anyone who has never been here before or who has never read my writing… WELCOME! To the rest of you that have been with me since my first post when this blog was called nikki in nyc, all I can say is thank you for sticking with me this long and for your never-wavering support. My last post here was back in August (aptly titled August) so needless to say that a lot has gone on since then. 

For those that are new here, this blog used to be called nikki in nyc. One major change in the new year is the name of my site. I spent a lot of time agonizing (yes agonizing) over what to now call it since I’m no longer living in New York City. I realized since none of us have any idea what the future holds, I didn’t want the name of my blog to be tied to any one location. My writing was never solely about New York or any one singular thing- which is the entire point. I never wanted to force myself into some kind of box. I enjoy writing and sharing whatever is going on at that particular moment… or maybe jumping back to a past memory that led me up to this point. Plenty of past posts didn’t hinge on me living in NYC. It just happened to be where I was when I started this page, so I wound up running with the name. Plus it did sound cute, ya know? I thought maybe for a hot second that I should leave nikki in nyc behind and start completely fresh. New Year, New Blog right?! 

I quickly realized that that wasn’t going to work. I adore this blog. I didn’t want to scrap it and throw it out as if to suggest it was like some first draft that didn’t make it.  I didn’t want to leave any of my past writing behind shoving it aside as if it was no longer relevant. The thing is, it is extremely relevant. My thoughts and stories are evolving daily, whether I am living in NYC or not. I am writing my first book about my life in New York… and no matter what a large part of my heart will always be there regardless if I am living there or not. If writing this book has taught me one thing, it’s that past events contributed majorly to landing me in NYC.  Sometimes I write about the past. Sometimes I write about where I am heading. Sometimes I talk about the exact moment I am living in.  As tough as 2020 was, it completely changed my life and I plan to really dive into exactly how I landed in the exact spot I am in now.

This time last year, if someone would have told me that by the end of the year I would move out of New York City, wind up living with my parents in South Carolina, and be working one hundred percent remote I never would have believed it. I never could have imagined that I actually would be in the middle of writing my first book like I’ve dreamed of for half my life. I never would have believed how my relationships with certain people would forever be changed. 

I plan to dive into each of these things in separate posts giving them all the time and attention they deserve. Besides, if I tried to write about all of those things in this one post it would equate to more of a book than a blog post. For now I leave you with a thank you for being here and an official invite into Nicole Kanz: my thoughts put into words, experiences as I live them.