Retirement

I've been trying to feel my way back here, and just am not feeling it.

So much is happening in the real world, so much personal growth, and work is beginning to pick up. I want to keep blogging, but not on this blog. That's the realization. It just feels like a time capsule to me. Pre-lost baby, post-lost baby. Everything changed after her. So this is it. The official retirement of this blog. It seems crazy to me, having blogged since '04. So many links, so many friends made even. But I need a new outlet for the new me. 

It is almost the midway point in school. I have begun to see clients for Health Coaching, which is going really, really well. The first newsletter has gone out and been well received, the second one is in the almost ready. I'm trying to get my summer class schedule organized so it can go into the July issue.

Una is going to go to high school, which is huge, and for which we are both feeling very ready. It will be good.

I've also just enrolled at Permaculture Visions International, an online course out of Australia that is using the Mollison curriculum. So far so good. Can't wait to hit the books.

The Art Basel Naples idea has morphed into a Potluck Poetry Slam that will happen during Art Basel Miami in December. The Bring Your Own Wine Festival is still in the works for February. Planning for NaNoWriMo in November. Building my business. In school. Family. It's enough.


Too busy. Ultimately that's the reality.

I will leave this up until I have the time to properly handle it's archival process. And I will put up links to anything new I'm up to.

Thank you so much to all of you, my readers. I have known many of you, in a way, just by checking analytics and seeing you still there, still checking in. It has been heartening over the years, even if you've never said anything. And thank you to those of you who've commented. I am especially grateful for the online friendships that have resulted from this blog and will last far beyond it's influence. May you all find the good you seek.

Thank you also all of you who have linked to this blog. I learned so much during the process of writing, coding and linking to others. Reading your thoughts has enriched me and made me a better person. May you find great success.

Thank you even to my trolls. I have learned from you as well, and hold no grudges. We all have to work with what we're given. I wish you happiness. Truly.

Okay. Sniff. I guess that's it. Goodbye Blogger, Diary of a Feminist Housewife, and all of you fair folk. Blessings. <3

(Actually crying.)