A quick update. I’ve been very busy with family stuff and work stuff, but everything seems to be on a more even keel now, thankfully. The one personal casualty has been that I cannot attend IASPR or RWA, a fact about which I am so sad that even typing it is hard to do. That said, I am still looking very much forward to our family UK sojourn in July.
1. It’s been a lovely stretch, weather wise, here in Maine. here are a few pics to prove it:
The vegetable garden
More veggie garden
The pups, dying to get into the garden, but knowing better
Flower garden, surviving despite my best efforts
2. Soccer season is finally over for both boys. Max’s season was short and local, but David has been playing all over New England since March. We were so ready to be done! (Well, everyone except David). A couple of pics:
Max (12) has a relaxed style of play. This is mid game.
David's team was quite polished by the end of the season
3. As for the blog, I am not sure what the plan is going forward.
I don’t think I will get back to the Monday Morning Stepback for a while, if ever. Those posts were very time consuming for me, not so much in the writing of them (although that often took me 2-3 hours), but in the collecting of links. I subscribed to hundreds of blogs, and clicked on every single tweeted link that might be remotely interesting, just for that post.
Edited to add: I forgot to say I deleted my RRR Facebook account, and also my accounts on Goodreads and Tumblr. I know there were a few folks who liked reading my stuff other places, but I needed to streamline in order not to go more insane than I already am. Thank you for understanding!
I am hoping to write a post or 3 on the Hunger Games, because I am right now writing a paper on the trilogy.
Welp, that’s the update. If you are reading this, thank you for hanging in there!
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I really liked your Monday Morning Stepback posts, but can totally understand the need to stepback (ha!) because they’re so time consuming. I recently dumped my own Random Romance Sunday posts for the very same reason. I meant them to be fun filler posts, but instead they morphed into a dreaded time-suck. And sad face that I won’t be seeing you at RWA. Bummer.
Like SuperWendy, I loved the Stepbacks, because it saved me the time of reading every single blog! Plus they often generated more interesting comment threads than the original posts.
The garden is looking good!
Beautiful dogs!
I will really miss your Monday Morning Stepback posts, but I know how hard those kinds of posts can be to maintain. I really hope you do write on The Hunger Games I’d enjoy reading your thoughts.
I’m glad you had a moment to post an update.
I’ll miss your MMS posts but I know how much time gets sucked up blogging.
How am I to feel all in the know, and instantly attain a store of knowledge and perspective without your Monday Morning Stepbacks?? Please reinstitute them immediately.
Just kidding. That didn’t sound a jokey as I meant it. Blogging should never become a burden. I love Max’s relaxed style of play in soccer. And your relaxed summer approach to blogging this summer. Are those little lettuces? How lovely they will be to eat in a salad.
It’s nice to see you back on-line, and I’m glad life is a bit easier again.
I love your MMS posts too, but can imagine how time-consuming they are. My kids are definitely
like yours when it comes to soccer: one relaxed, one serious.
I’m very glad to see you online here at RRR again and I look forward to reading whatever you post here (yeah, I’ll miss the Monday Morning Stepback posts but as someone whose own RSS feed is full of “keep unread” posts I really, truly mean to get to someday, I completely understand the need for you to um…step back ;-p) .
Good to “see” you around here again; I’m glad things are getting a bit better.
Glad to see you around, happy to read whatever catches your eye, and as someone who hasn’t updated their livejournal for months I’m certainly not going to criticise you for getting on with living
I am glad to hear that things are getting on a more even keel for you. I too will miss your MMS posts, but completely understand how producing them could be a real chore.
Thanks everyone! I should have mentioned, but many of you already know, that Dear Author and Stumbling Over Chaos both have regular links posts. And, even if you aren’t on Twitter, you can sign up to follow specific twitter accounts using your feed reader. One I recommend for bookish and technology news is @jafurtado. Arts and Letters Daily is also a good source of book news, on twitter as @aldaily.
You will be missed at IASPR!
Good to see you back Jessica with that lovely series of summer pictures. Looking forward to more of RRR in whatever form works for you.
Nice to see you back on line Jessica!
I really must start taking my older one to football training. He loves it and he’s a natural. So difficult fitting everything in though. He does a few other activities already.