Blogging the day away (Update)
by tamarjacobson
Once I would blog all day. If I was not writing my post I would be thinking about what I wanted to write later. At times I would even blog in my sleep, waking with numerous ideas, thoughts, feelings that I was anxious to explore.
Lately, I do not have the time. My inner life is turned towards work, new organizations I am participating in, writing my book, making friends, walking in the park, and so much more.
Lecturing and presenting, I am able to express my theories and opinions about child development, teacher education, the state of the world, our nation, humanity, relationships, abilities, diversity, acceptance, compassion, families, therapy, grief and sorrow, death and living, age and loving. Even in the face of health threats I seem to be laughing more, singing in the car and humming as I go about the daily chores.
I wonder. Is this the introduction to the final chapter of my blog?
Update:
Facebook friends reply:
Well, if so, I hope it’s a very very long chapter. But maybe you just need a little time off from the blogosphere. If so, please still hang around here so we can continue our scrabulous relationship.
no.
It was a dark and bloggy night . . .
I sure hope not. This is a playground. Web publishing is the society that contains the playground.
Not on the hair of my chinny-chin-chin. The final chapter of your blog is many years away.
I ask myself the same question and the answer I get is "don’t know." But the evidence keeps mounting that this might be the swan song — and Frank will probably carry the fight against it–as he should.
tamarjacobson 
Dear Frank,
Sigh.
Thanks so much for this comment. Made me feel very happy to know you are always out there, dancing, scrabulating, twittering, and right in the midst of my stream of bloggishness.
“Having the time to blog with passion, creativity and conviction reflects the mixed blessing of having the time available to do so.”
Shows I should re-read before I hit the enter key. But you get my drift.
When I answered, I had read your question narrowly in a Facebook context. Then I thought about your health concerns and kicked myself for my insensitivity. Were you alluding to your own sense of mortality, I wondered? This post is wonderful for me because it simply states that with the blooming activity and commitments of a full life, you’re wondering how much time you’ll be giving to publishing here. Easy answer… “Time will tell.”
Long ago I made a commitment to regular blog updates. If I can share a little something each day, then I have a better chance of maintaining and broadening my circle of online friends. But the quality and the length of my posts is probably inversely proportional to the diversity of activity in my life. Having the time to blog with passion, creativity and conviction reflects the mixed blessing of having the time available to do so.
I hope “Mining Nuggets” remains as a stepping stone in my stream of bloggishness. It’s one good way we have to stay in touch with each other.
Ainelivia,
Hello again. I wonder why you couldn’t find my Facebook question? Yeah, I can’t imagine giving up blogging yet. But I am thinking that it might become a bit different as I am thinking differently about things these days … and who knows … it just might stay the same!
Got an email saying you had asked a question on Facebook.. and went there, couldn’t find the question though ( I can’t seem to get my head around FB at all)
I’m with Danny on panic and abandonment issues; and with Jean on lack of blogging-oomph; though I hope you won’t; let’s see how it goes, and hoping that you will go wherever your heart desires.
Thanks Danny and Tamar,
As you know I have been down this road a couple of times before, and often what happens is as I try on “leaving” for size, I find that I love blogging too much to give it up completely … so it ain’t over yet! But I do think the tone of the blog might change a tiny bit. We will see!
I don’t want to get all psychobabble-y… yet lately you refer to health (and other?) issues you prefer not blogging about. Are these related to your thoughts on crafting a swan post? I am with Danny, and wish you well as a blogger, non-blogger, or something in between. You have given me lots of grist for the mill in the year or less since I have come to this address. Warm thoughts to you.
I used to panic whenever anyone whose blog I read talked about stopping. Now I have a little more control over my abandonment issues and I can accept such decisions without fear. When people talk about how their lives are so busy and full, I have to watch my narcissistic tendency to feel like I need to get a life–that something must be wrong with me since I still want to spend time writing in my blog! Oy. Then I realize that someone else’s decision about this has nothing to do with me at all!
Good luck with whatever you decide, Tamar. I LOVE reading your blog but trust that we will still be in touch even if you stop writing in it.
Hi Jean,
As usual your comment gives me much food for thought. I do love writing in my blog, so it might serve me well to start writing a bit more about the professional side to “tamarika!”
I certainly find myself at a turning point in the life of my blog and for some time now it has the atmosphere of a beginning to the final chapter. So, perhaps it might just be the beginning of a new direction.
Well, you could always tell us a little about what you’re doing, or link to it if there’s a website. However, briefly. I’d love to have a picture of your professional world.
Lots of people seem to come and go from their blogs, even leaving gaps of months, and since most readers have you in a ‘reader’ where they see as soon as you update again, you don’t lose them.
Anyway, however it goes, I’m so happy for you about all this. I guess it does take a year or two to really start rebuilding your networks in a new city.
I am completely out of oomph for blogging too. Might try and do NaBloPoMo and see if this kick-starts anything. Writing does always make me feel good, however disinclined I think I am. But then, I’m not writing a book đ