The long and the short of it comes to the same thing, in the end: I’ve enjoyed blogging at Alas, but I don’t enjoy it anymore and so will be stopping.<\/p>\n
When Ampersand first asked me to be a guest blogger (and later, a co-blogger) here at Alas, I was flattered and proud. I was writing lengthy comments on dozens of posts on dozens of blogs, and it was nice to know that someone had noticed. I leapt at the opportunity. I’d been thinking about starting a blog of my own but hadn’t made the plunge, yet. Blogging at Alas seemed like the next best thing or one thing better, I couldn’t decide.<\/p>\n
Some time between then and now, my enthusiasm for blogs and blogging waned, plummeted, and finally died. You probably noticed; I never post anymore. Of the dozens of blogs that I read back then I now read eight. Only three of those blogs are political, and I’ll admit that they’re likely to be discarded in the near future. All of these blogs, both personal and political, are exhausting—there are only four that ever make me smile, sigh, or laugh: frogblog<\/a>, One Good Thing<\/a>, Waiting for Nat<\/a>, and Back to Iraq<\/a>. I can’t say why, but the reason is a tangent and is ultimately irrelevant to what I’m saying here.<\/p>\n As I said, I enjoyed posting here when I did. My heart isn’t in it anymore, though, so this is the end. I’ll likely still comment from time to time, but this will be my last post.<\/p>\n Thanks for everything..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The long and the short of it comes to the same thing, in the end: I’ve enjoyed blogging at Alas, but I don’t enjoy it anymore and so will be stopping. When Ampersand first asked me to be a guest … Continue reading