Almost a year ago, I started a blog in this space. At first, it was a daily online journal full of observations about whatever was going on in our lives. A few weeks later, as life moved into a faster routine away from the languid rhythms of summertime. I began posting a couple of times a week. At some point, I realized what I really wanted to do was to write more polished pieces. I began producing essays that I thought were the kind of thing you once might have read in a newspaper.
Whatever form my posting took, I committed to stay with the blog for a year. I began the blog in August, 2010. It is now near the end of July 2011. Since I am both player and umpire in this game, it is up to me to make the call. I have decided this is close enough.
I have produced, I think, a fair amount of decent material for this blog over these months. It will remain here for you to enjoy, but I am taking a break. As of today, this blog is going into hiatus while I recuperate and focus my creative energies on other outlets.
Chief among those other outlets will be my long form podcast Your Neighborhood Almanac. I don’t anticipate this will be a permanent break from writing here, but in the meantime if you want to hear from me, Your Neighborhood Almanac will be the place to do it.
Thanks for a great year.
Look forward to hearing more podcasts!
Hope you will write now and then to let us know how you (and Noah) are doing!