Oh, it’s been on the horizon for months now, I’ve hinted at it, and now, FINALLY, it’s happening. Please don’t panic, I’m not going anywhere – well, not entirely true, I’m going somewhere, but I do hope you will come with me to… dum da da dum…
My new blog!
Writing at the Table, writer + mother feeding my dream and my family
For three and a half years now I’ve been blogging here at celiac kiddo. Recipes and rants, I used to say, but it’s been more than that (I hope so anyway!). I wrote from my heart about having a child with celiac, about living a gluten free life in a gluten loving world. Over the years I grew a small but solid band of readers, and I am so grateful to every single one of you.
photo credit: shimelle laine via flickr
I hesitated to make a change for a while because I didn’t want to lose anyone, and let’s face it, change is scary. Well, it is for me.
But I’ve been shifting and drifting on the blog for a while now, as you may have noticed, writing more about my life and less about celiac. I’ll still be posting gluten free recipes because feeding my family (body and soul) is as much a part of my life as writing is.
I am a mother and a writer.
Part of the reason I’m starting this new blog is to show how the two can be integrated, how for some of us, they have to be.
I hope you will join me in as I turn this corner of my blogging life. But if not, please know that I appreciate the time you spent here! I realize that you can’t please everyone, or write for everyone, so I’m letting go of my fear and leaping into the future.
photo credit: Brian Smithson via flickr
I’ll be posting weekly here and on Writing at the Table for the next month or so, to ease the transition, but I would be SUPER psyched if you subscribe to my email list and/or follow me there.
CONTEST! WIN A FREE BOOK!
As a fun little incentive, I’m having a month-long contest running the first four weeks of December. Each week I’ll randomly select one person who subscribes to my email list to win one of my favorite writing books!
Enter to win, the first drawing will take place and be announced on Tuesday, December 9th!
The first is “Still Writing” by Dani Shapiro, an incredibly inspiring and practical book that helped reinvigorate my writing life.
If you’ve already read it, you can gift it to a friend! It is the holiday season, after all.
*This contest includes my entire email subscriber list, so if you’ve already signed up you’re eligible!
Thank you dear readers for all your support over the years, and please let me know what you think of my new blog!
(Also, I’d love any advice or tips on transitioning from one blog to another from those who’ve done it before, since this is quite new to me.)
Sounds wonderful, best of luck! 🙂
Kristine, thank you!! Your blog’s new look is AWESOME and I can’t wait to see what you do with it going forward.
So exciting! I look forward to your new blog, Dana! Donna Galanti www.donnagalanti.com
Thanks so much Donna! Your support and kindness has been, and continues to be, invaluable.
I have often pondered on the ‘life expectancy’ of a blog… how long does one continue to blog or continue to have the passion to blog with a specific angle…. and how do shifts in our lives change our focus. For me, my gf son turns 18 soon and so I only have two more years for a blog entitled “Gluten Free and the Australian Teenager”… I had never thought about this when I started the blog. So my blog’s life expectancy will naturally expire, at least under that title.
Looking forward to following you in your new blog and great to see you get some of your passion and time back for your writing.
Yes, it’s so interesting to me the life span of a blog… I began thinking about a shift maybe a year ago, but the time didn’t feel quite right until now. You have two years until the teenager is no longer one 🙂 so you have some time to figure it out! You could always be Gluten Free and the Australian Family, or something along those lines.
Thank you so much for all your support on this blog, and the new one! I really appreciate it tremendously.
Oh you KNOW I want that book!!! see you in your new blog and best of luck ❤
Oh, it’s SUCH an incredible book! Thank you so much Yolanda 🙂