An End to This Blogging Chapter: On Hiatus for Rebrand

Hi friends!

I’m not one for making hiatus announcements as those feel like goodbyes for me. I’ve been blogging for so long that it’s honestly become a safe space of sorts for me in addition to being a digital journal and scrapbook of memories — I’m not ready to say goodbye to that just yet.

So instead, I opt for posting less than usual and popping in at least 1-3 months with proof of life when things get too much for me, and I end up putting blogging on the back burner. It might not work for everyone, but it works for me, and really, that’s all that matters.

Frankly, this might be my first “hiatus” announcement ever — is it really a hiatus, though? — but I think this very much warrants an announcement for transparency.

Regular readers will know exactly why as I’ve been talking about it for the past few months, but for those not so regular or popping by for the first time:

I’ve decided to go through with a rebrand!

I think it’s been a long time coming as I go through a phase of wanting to do it but then opt not to for various reasons: not the right time, didn’t come up with the perfect name, too much work, etc. It’s a thing I’ve debated about every few years for a good part of the past decade, but thought about more extensively in the past two years — I think that’s a sign that while I haven’t grown away from my blogging chapter, I’m certainly growing from within this chapter.

Kind of fitting, since this blog will be a teen this November. Nothing like going through a glow-up and evolution in the teen years. 🤪

I know some people aren’t going to be thrilled about the rebrand, so they may opt to unfollow, and that’s absolutely valid.

In the meantime, I’ll be radio silent here on the blog so I can work on updating things on the staging site. I’ll be shutting down comments on posts completely two weeks from now (usually I close them after a year of the post going live) so I can transfer the site over to the staging environment and not have to worry about transferring them over later. And I’ll also be turning off the like button since any new ones after I start working on the new site wouldn’t be transferring over.

But I’m excited to be starting a new blogging chapter — and I hope you’ll stick around! Thanks for continuing to visit my little corner over the years. I’ll see you all in November!