Hilarious! And all so ringingly true. Hmmm, new blog name? SingleMomville?

Yay, you’re back!

Quilters have blogs? Oh, NO.

And I agree with your comment about getting paid. However, some people are “found” through their blog, and then get some sort of insane deal from it. So, there’s that.

New directions/title/topics?

-The things we do to crawl out of a truly hideous financial hole as a result of divorce. Or as a result of the recession. Or whatever the F, it doesn’t matter. I can be a guest blogger on this topic. As, I’m sure, can a lot of people.

-Men? Nah. Who cares? Been done. Been done a lot. They can be a side note, maybe. A garnish.

-I don’t know, just write and you’ll figure out what it is.

-P.Faucett. An inside joke, sorry, but for comment readers– a real guy who also happens to be… wait for it… a urologist.

Christina, forget looking for a focus, just write and see where it leads you.

Loved it. Got it. Lots of inner laughs. Not too many villes.
Hiatus from men to connect more with your own creativity has tons of back-up: philosophically, psychologically, energetically, bio-physiologically, spiritually (all this to say, yogically), not to mention temporally. Lots more can be said on this…Which is bringing me to think about the new focus/ direction question… Seeking Selfville? (I know doesn’t have a ring to it…)… From Half to Wholeville? (still no ring)….. Something about finding emotional and financial wholeness. But then it might not be funny! Seems funny is embedded in the neurosis, which is, by definition, a split mind, a deep inner ambivence of self against self. So it’s kind of hard to have wholeness (Latin root = health) and neurosis (= funny?). Oy vay ! !

I am still out here! And I am a big fan with many comments.

Yes, you deserve to get paid. As a person who reads more memoirs and non fiction than anyone I know, your writing is the cream of the crop. Your writing needs to be a book, be it Splitsville or another topic. Please write a book and get paid for the book.

I can get why you took a major break from this particular blog. Maybe you have written enough about this subject for now. If you have not, I will continue to read it because I love this blog. However, if it is healthy for you to move on from this subject matter, then for my own completely selfish, voracious reader please provide me with stuff to read reasons, I would ask that you blog about something else.

I also get that it can be annoying for a really great writer to be aware that everyone is blogging. I am starting to wonder if some people are writing from the vantage point of Little House on the prairie, or the land that feminism forgot. There is a great deal of quilting, canning, having copious numbers of children and knitting all of their clothes, and at this time of the year, tapping of maple trees. I get it.

The cream always rises to the top. Just because there are bad bloggers does not mean that you should stop being a great and original blogger. Or writer of books.

I continue to post pictures on FB (which I am sure will turn into blogs when I am ready) in spite of the bad photography getting posted, even the bad photography inspired by what I think of as my good photography. It’s all good.

I have said my piece. And by the way, blogs get a whole lot more traffic when you link it to FB, so don’t worry about writing in a vacuum.

Love the most recent post. Just had to add my 2 cents about your talent. If you are embarrassed, get over it.

You will always be blogging deep in my heart whether you officially blog or not!
As for Splitsville…. hmmm… how about your descent from splitsville into pitsville and then your gradual rise from pitsville into gritsville and eventually to britsville where you can become a …postman!

Yay–real comments again from my best pals! Thank you! I could create a blog based on everyone’s funny, insightful comments alone!

Laura–yes, TONS of quilters, canners, origami-ers, and, according to Karen (see her comment) maple-syrup tappers!

Ricki: What is bio-physiologically vs just physiologically?

YM: LOVE IT–Pitsville, Gritsville, Britsville, here I come!

Hey Christina, I have seen blogs change names, it might be something like “Thriving Despite Us” and then in little letters “Formerly Our Journey Through Adoption”. So you could call yours Midlife Musings formerly Living in Splitsville. But ya know, the splitsville thing, and the blog was great for that 1st phase or so after splitting… maybe you are just not so bloggy right now? That’s allowed…

Wow, I never thought of that, Jessica–thank you! Blogs seem like they’re supposed to be endless, but maybe we need to think of them more like we think of books–self-contained, finite creations.

I do really like the design I chose for this blog (designer friends, aren’t you impressed?) so maybe I will simply re-name it.

How does anyone have time to read so many blogs, anyway? I feel very old and curmudgeonly–like who cares? I guess that’s why I’m sometimes a reluctant blogger.

So Funny, …it doesn’t matter WHAT you blog about, at the risk of sounding really boring: Just be you and let us in. We get it.

Is it ok that it is these very comments from you wonderful people that make me want to continue? Because if I had gotten zero comments, I think I would have crawled back into my little blog-free cave. Seriously. I know I shouldn’t care and just blog into the void fueled only by my passion for words and self-expression–but I’m not like that, sadly. I need to know that someone is taking it in and responding positively.

(That’s normal, right? Hello? Anyone still there?)