The short version:
Principled Discovery is shutting down. I, however, will continue to blog under a new title at a new domain. If you have enjoyed my postings here, please update your links and your feed readers so that you can join me at my new home on the web: Roscommon Acres. The content will be similar to what I’ve been posting here, but a little more personal. Roscommon Acres is, after all, my home. Or will be once we’re finished moving. Most of the content from this blog has already been moved over there, and I’ve started writing again. There’s even already a nifty about page if you would like to know a little more about my vision for our family and the blog.
The long version:
When a blog sits neglected for long stretches as this one has, it probably comes of little surprise when the author finally shuts it down. Over the past year, a number of things have kept me from regular blogging: having a baby, a hospitalization, a lengthy recovery, trying to sell our home, purchasing a home. And sometimes, even when I had the time to write, my heart just wasn’t in it. My mind was in a thousand other places. But it gave me a lot of time to think about this blog and what I wanted from it.
It also gave me time to think about the time I spend on it and what else I could do with that time.
And then I realized I was going about this thinking all wrong. I was asking all the wrong questions so the answers were not particularly useful. There is something very tangible I have always gotten from blogging, but it was also always a sort of substitute for what I really wanted. Rather than asking myself what I wanted from this blog, I needed to be asking myself what I wanted from myself.
Where do I want to be five years from now? What goals do I have as a mom, as a homeschooler, as a writer? How does blogging fit in with that? Will it help? Will it hinder?
And suddenly, rather than a storm cloud looming on the horizon with the thought of changing or closing down this blog, I began to get excited with all the possibilities.
And I found that blogging does have a place in those goals, just not quite the same place it had before my forced hiatus from serious blogging.
If you’re curious what those goals are, well, you’ll just have to follow me over at my new home.
Gladly following
Oh, yeah! It will be nice to have an old friend at my new home.
I’ll update the RSS in my sidebar. I don’t often comment, but I do read — have done so for quite a number of years. Looking forward to what comes next, Dana.
Cat
(@lifeledlearning)
Aw, so happy to know you’re out there and making the move with me! I miss commenting on your blog, but I guess that is easy enough to remedy.
Congratulations…sounds exciting. You’ll see me around for sure.
Yeah! I’ll be excited to see you at our new place.
Switching my bloglines. What’s happening with “A very nearly tea”? (She punctuates, Britishly.)
Much Luck to you! … I have always enjoyed your writing and so happy to have such a wonderful blogger friend.
Yeah! More people to visit my new home!
Nothing’s happening with a Very Nearly Tea. I’ve just spent too much time playing with my new blog. I’ll resume sporadic and irregular posting over there now.
I will see you there!
I rarely comment, but I am a faithful reader. I’m switching your link in my blog’s sidebar right now!
Yeah! Look forward to seeing you at my new home!
Nice post. Well done. Thanks. Keep going.
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See you @ Roscommon Acres
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Great information in this post and I think there is something very tangible I have always gotten from blogging, but it was also always a sort of substitute for what I really wanted.