I started writing “we move to canada” in July of 2004, to document the process of emigrating to Canada. It quickly became a document of my mind. I had no idea that only five years later, I would embark on a career change. No longer writing professionally, I would need this blog as an outlet for All The Words. More than 20 years later, I still do.
Creating this little Substack has been a trip into the Wayback Machine, feeling like the old days of the blogosphere. A dizzying number of writers to potentially follow, fledgling writers cheering each other on, a seemingly endless range of topics and quality. Linking and following, following back. The terms have changed — substitute “newsletter” for “blog” and “recommendations” for “blogroll” — but it’s basically the same blogging in a new and improved format.
It pains me a bit to not have All My Stuff in one place, to have new posts disconnected from all the archives. Something to challenge my compulsive tendencies.
Speaking of all the old comments, an incredibly nice and generous coder person is beavering away at the Lost Comments issue. Their only payment is building their resume. The internet at its best. Without the apostrophe.
I’m still learning about Substack, so bear with me during the learning curve.
Amy's and Orion's comments appearing in my email points to a potential downside of Substack: no comment moderation. Users can delete unwanted comments and block senders, but that only applies to an email address.
The wmtc troll has multiple emails. He doesn't appear often, but he has never stopped sending me messages through comments, which I delete. Hmm. We'll see.
Hope this works out for you, Laura. I agree it’s too bad to be separated from the archive but … sigh… sometimes these choices have to be made. We’ve been away, just back, done like dinner, but caught up on the blog. Hope Cookie is doing ok in her early days of recovery. And that you folks are managing ok with it. Poor pup will not be happy about not running. Times like these one really wishes one could explain it all to them. As if they’d listen!