Final Post For Awhile

Saturday, Jul. 23, 2011 - 1:54 p.m.

Friends, this is my last post here in Diaryland for the forseeable future.

Lately I feel like I don't have enough patience or moxie to dive into the news every day and glean the things I think are worth talking about. There are so many other places that do a much better job of it than I have ever done anyway.

Amy Winehouse's demise was a sort of catalyst as far as this decision to take a break goes, because I've realized that writing about celebrity deaths is nothing but low-hanging fruit. I could do better, but I keep opting not to.

Another factor is my health, and my finite amount of energy. Every day, I ask myself do I want to sit down and read the news and write a diary entry? Or do I wanna work on my music, have realtime visits with my online friends, watch a DVD with John, or go fall down and sleep some more? As of late, those latter options have been what I end up doing.

There's something else I've learned as I've kept this diary or worked on music, and that's this: With any creative endeavor, there comes a time when you really kind of have to step back, see what things look like, and know when to stop. I really believe that this is that time. Time to take a big break from Diaryland.

Finally, I've come to realize that the main problem that made me create this diary to begin with -- namely my interaction with and mistake of trusting an internet stalker who was a master of Munchausen By Internet -- is something that is happening more these days, and not less. If anything, folks are more vulnerable and more prone to emotional promiscuity (both sexual and non-sexual) now than they were eight years ago when I started. My stalker is still at large, because there is still not enough legislation on the books to deal with this sort of abuse and fraud.

So I really have to wonder if this body of work has done very much good at all.

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I still exist online, in the form of Twitter, and sometimes Facebook, so maybe I'll see you there.

So that's the skinny. I'm done with Diaryland until I feel like making an entry again, which might be a while.

In the meantime, my membership expires here in the early part of 2012; until then, barring any renewal or reignited interest on my part, I'll leave this diary up and available for anybody who wants to peruse the archives or look at the pictures.

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Thank you SO much for reading.

I really do appreciate my regular readers, and am so glad you kept coming to see me.

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Okay -- that's it. See you again somewhere.

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