A Change of Pace

Every Tuesday for more than a year, a post has gone live here. Sometimes personal, sometimes philosophical, and sometimes political. Sometimes I was writing weeks ahead of schedule; other times I was racing the clock at 11 p.m. to make a 12:05 release.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about what this blog has been—and what it hasn’t.

The conversations I hoped would grow around these posts never really manifested. That’s disappointing, though if I’m being honest, I’ve done a pretty poor job of promoting this space and putting it in front of new readers.

I’ve been wrestling with what to do as I felt the pace slowing. Part of me wanted to keep posting simply because it’s Tuesday and that’s what I’ve done for more than a year. But I’ve come to realize that forcing it isn’t the answer.

Writing has always been at its best for me when there’s something I genuinely want to say, not when I’m trying to satisfy a self-imposed deadline. So rather than forcing words onto the page, I’m choosing to let things breathe and write when inspiration, curiosity, or conviction calls for it.

I thought about shutting it down and letting it all go dark, but that feels too much like admitting it was all a waste. It wasn’t.

The readership may not have grown the way I hoped, and the conversations I imagined never really took shape, but I grew personally in the process. I became a more disciplined writer, explored ideas I might never have put into words otherwise, and left behind a record of where my head and heart were during this chapter of my life.

For that reason alone, this blog has been worth it.

So this isn’t a goodbye, but it is a change of pace.

The weekly schedule is ending. I may revisit old posts, update ideas with new information, and I’ll still write when I have something worth saying. I just don’t want to force words onto the page because the calendar says it’s Tuesday.

And perhaps it’s fitting that this post is going up on a Wednesday. After more than a year of Tuesdays, it seems I’ve already taken the first step toward breaking the habit of writing because the calendar demands it.

This blog has been therapy at times, a discipline at others, and occasionally just a place to throw thoughts into the void and see if anything echoed back.

Thank you to everyone who has read along, whether you commented, shared a post, or simply stopped by in silence. I appreciate your time more than you know.

Here’s to whatever comes next.

— Mic