Over a Hedge Comes of Age

I made a small but important change to the blog yesterday when I bought the overahedge.ca domain name for it. When I first started the blog, I still harboured big dreams of becoming a somewhat known novelist, so it seemed like it was important to have my name in the blog's URL. Even when I started reading articles discounting blogs with the word blogspot in their URL, it didn't seem like a significant enough of an issue to attach a different domain name to it.

Over time, Over a Hedge has become more about Japan and less about my adventures in not getting published, and the name of the blog has become more prominent in readers' minds. For these reasons, it seemed like it was time to complete the branding experience and have the domain name match the blog's title.

When I first named the blog, it had nothing to do with riding the coattails of a similarly named children's movie, and everything to do with one of my favourite photos of Shisendo that you can see in the profile picture on the right of the page. Looking over the curve of the hedge yields an interesting perspective of Shisendo, with the roof seeming to be suspended in mid-air. As a Canadian-based blogger, writing about Japan from a physical distance and an increasingly longer temporal distance (it's been twelve years now since I last lived there, and five since I had a chance to visit), I feel like I am writing from the perspective of someone peering over a hedge who can only describe one part of the whole picture. By acknowledging this limitation in the name, hopefully it allows me to maintain credibility with my readers. I appreciate all your visits and hope you continue to follow me by updating your links to my new URL: www.overahedge.ca

Thanks again for reading.