That sucks, but I understand.
Thank God I live near you and I know where you live or I would be devastated.
I'm sorry to hear this, but I totally understand. Please stay in touch, and I wish you the very best with the medical and other issues.
Stop at Dune. Reading the sequels is an enormous mistake.
I go through blogging ebbs and flows myself. Hope to see you back again.
I've really enjoyed getting to know you in a different way through this blog, but completely understand. Blogs seem so much like a high school romance -- a wonderful arc but an arc nonetheless. (Somewhat bad analogy I suppose, considering FS and I ...)
I'll miss you in this space, but fully expect that we'll keep in touch one way or another.
I've enjoyed reading, if you can take the time to create a chapter or page of a book instead of a blog post-go for it. But I'm still sad to see you go...
Since you enjoy books and a little sci-fi, try Jasper Fforde and the Eyre Affair.
I'll keep you in the reader for when you change your mind. Also? My bff from forever called me last night. 18 weeks, no heartbeat, and all that. I may call you. No matter how prepared I thought I was to be supportive, I just didn't know what to say to make her feel better. i just listened.
I'll miss your posts, but maybe this will force me to send you real emails instead of just looking for your updates. I'm excited to see what turn your writing takes next.
Yeah, like others, I'm sorry to see you leaving, but I totally understand.
I'm not a big fan of Dune, but I can recommend Kate Elliot's Jaran series whole-heartedly. Fantastic enormously long and engaging books -- you will like them.
And if you haven't read Connie Willis's "Domesday" and "To Say Nothing of the Dog," try them, too.
Safe journeys to you.
I understand where you are coming from, but I will very much miss coming here. Thank you for sharing this space with me. I definitely feel like I have gotten to know a different side of you and feel much closer to you because of it. Plus, you are such a fantastic writer. I hope you find another outlet for your thoughts. Writing has been incredibly therapeutic to me, particularly when it is about unhappy things. I will be thinking of you and saying my prayers that the unhappiness current flows away very soon, replaced by calm, peaceful waters. Lots of love to you.
We'll miss you
Do what you have to do, but.....I'll miss reading here.
All the best to you.
I'll miss you too! Now I feel bad for not taking the time to comment many times when I've wanted to but just been tired and crabby and not inclined to inflict myself on anyone who doesn't HAVE to put up with me (my readers are another matter--masochists that they may be, they CHOOSE to read my Gloom And Doom). If you do feel the urge to come back and check in, please don't feel like you're breaking any unwritten rules by "rising from the dead" as it were. I'd like to know how you and your family are doing now and then, good bad or otherwise. Please don't feel the need to be silent just because you have nothing positive or amusing or uplifting to offer us. I considered ending my blog, which used to be a pretty happy place, when my life spun out into the esoteric depress-o-rama of neurology, human genetics, epidemiology, rheumatology, and endocrinology, but didn't, and I've found that like my friends, the readers who have STAYED have been really good ones, people I am better for having "met" even virtually. I still try and write something funny or educational once in a while, but the fact is that lately my blog is dreary and full of typos, and well, art (if you can call it that--I DO have that fetching little butterfly on my masthead!) imitates life. I'm hoping for a personal Renaissance to begin PDQ, but it might not and if it doesn't I think I'll probably still keep plugging away. If nothing else, my blog gives me a place to chew over the things that my "real-life" friends (although pretty much all of my "RL" friends know about my blog; still they can choose to read it or not and I don't bug them about it) are (rightfully) tired of hearing about. Don't feel like you HAVE to write again, but don't feel like you SHOULDN'T is I guess what I'm trying to say. And that I'll miss you. And that if you ever want to bitch about how very far-reaching the suckitude of hypothyroidism can be, or talk Armour vs. Synthroid, or Endocrinologists These Days, or does X Herbal Remedy for suspected Adrenal Fatigue really work or is it snake-oil and is Adrenal Fatigue an actual condition, etc. I'm your girl. I can talk lab values and differential diagnoses until the cows come home, get disgusted, and leave again, and I'd be happy to talk to YOU about pretty much ANYTHING any time, lady. Take care!
I keep stopping by thinking perhaps you were just joking, but I fully understand the need to shut down the words. Like the many others, I will miss you. I hope everything goes well! I wil keep you in my thoughts and hopes.
Heather
Well, I will miss the lovely writing. You are a great writer. But I really understand the need not to feed the beast that blogs can become. I hope to see you in the real world, and soon. Love, and always thinking of you...
Caroline
Thanks for all that time.
Good luck!
I'll miss you. Keep in touch, would you please?
Sad to hear you're shutting it down (sad, too, that you're sad & dealing with so much crap) and I hope things look up. I'm glad I've had this chance to "know" you a wee bit.
I understand. I've been considering doing the same thing myself. I've take time off since I started blogging in 1998 (under another name, in another time I was even somewhat popular *wry*). I have a sadness and an anger too that each time I sit down to write I can't seem to get by. Or if I do, it is just barely. I hope if you do come back you will let us know here so we can find you again. Good luck, much much good luck and may the sorrow lift soon.
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