Checking In

I promise that I'll come out of my self-induced blog coma in short order.  The combination of Girlfriend (a welcome change to the norm of my everyday life), starting school and stopping managing has rendered blogging a lower priority than it used to (UPDATED to mention that I am in no way blaming my lack of blogging ON my girlfriend, only on the fact that having a girlfriend has made me... nevermind.. I'm just lazy).  I do miss it, however, and will be back soon.

One of the things I missed in my absense, however was this:

After almost exactly six years as a blogger, about three of them at this domain, I believe it’s time for me to bow out. My dedication to my writing here has waned and I am tired of the oddly daunting responsibility of owning a website that runs significant traffic with my name attached. Running this blog takes far more time and dedication than I’d like to admit, and it’s time and dedication I can no longer afford to expend now that I am out of college. This is a decision I made some time ago and grappled with up until I hit publish on this post.

This is, as most have probably already heard, written by Lauren of Feministe.  Lauren played a particularly significant role in the life of SRWU, when she asked me to guestblog for her during a busy time in her life when blogging didn't have the priority it normally did.  Through that stint guestblogging, I garnered a level of exposure that I hadn't achieved up to that point, and it opened the door to a much wider audience than I'd ever expected.  To this day, some of the posts I wrote on her site were some of the pieces I'm most proud of.  I also met some of my favorite bloggers over there.

Lauren is a thoughtful, distinctive and honest writer - traits which are only matched by the generosity she has shown to many of us, both in sharing her space and in bringing to a wider audience the things that people write in their own spaces.

Lauren, thanks for what you've contributed to the blogosphere and, more specifically, the opportunity you gave me.  I, for one, will sincerely miss your voice.

Comments

[Lauren]

Thank you, sweetums. I always loved having guestbloggers because they always upped the ante. You included.

Much love. xxoo