How to Kill a Blog
Posted by jen | Posted in Life | Posted on 28-05-2009
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Most people don’t create a blog with the idea that they will kill it, but it happens. I am going to tell the story of how the author of this blog killed it. Let me first clarify by telling you this blog has never received 1,000′s of hits per day.
The author started out this blog as an online journal to share thoughts and feelings. She didn’t even think anyone was really reading it until she began receiving emails from people who had been helped by her entries. She was committed to share her life online with people no matter how painful or mediocre. She wanted for people to see her struggles and triumphs in a way they could relate to.
Life happened. She took on an extra job, had numerous medical procedures out of town, began transitioning someone into her job, and the list goes on. She found in some of her life experiences that she wanted to share, but couldn’t at the time she was dealing with them. How could she tell the world she was preparing to step out of full time ministry when no one knew she was doing it?
This was an amazing opportunity for her and her family. She would be able to stay home all week and work one day a week at a job she could pick up pretty quickly. She would be able to stand by her husband in a time when he needed her most and her children would no longer have a nanny in the summer, but their Mom.
Life happened to this blog. The author is hoping that with a less strenuous schedule to breathe some life back into this blog.

OK – Jennifer I have to confess my blog has suffered the same neglect for many of the same reasons. The things that were on my heart, the things God was dealing with me about were the very things I couldn't share…life happened and well…long story short – I relate!
i'm hoping you get some time to breathe and enjoy your boys this summer. so excited for the new journey you're beginning. take a deep breath….
I SO get this. I can definitely relate. But still…the slow death of my own blog makes me sad. One because I love speaking to others through written word, and because I feel in a sense that I've let people down by letting it die. But sometimes life gets in the way, and other times what I want to write about, just shouldn't be shared at the time I'm going through it.