You know, I started blogging in 1999. That’s right — 25 years ago. Of course, they weren’t “blogs” then, they were “online journals” and mine was titled “Inner Architecture,” inspired by quote from Italian writer Italo Calvino:
“A person’s life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not because it counts more than the previous ones but because once they are included in a life, events are arranged in an order that is not chronological but, rather, corresponds to an inner architecture.”
I then moved onto a subdomain on one of my husband’s websites before purchasing puresugar.net in September 2000.
How did I land on puresugar.net? It was early in the morning and I was working at a telecom magazine at the time, where I was managing editor. A co-worker and I were choosing domain names for our websites. I looked down next to my cup of coffee and saw a McDonald’s sugar packet — “Pure Sugar.” And that was it!
Over the years I have used Blogger, pMachine, and WordPress (though I never got on board with Movable Type, regardless of how popular that was). I blogged through my engagement, through wedding planning, and through the childhoods of all three of our kids. Thanks to the blogging community I have made many wonderful friends, and I keep in touch with several. They were my support system when I was pregnant and a new mom, and seeing our kids all grow into young adults has been amazing. Unfortunately (thought not unexpectedly), most of them stopped blogging years ago, and I’m thinking it might be my time as well.
For now, I am going to keep my memory-keeping to journaling and scrapbooking, giving me a creative outlet. I still use Instagram regularly, and you are more than welcome to follow me there: carol.banc. I promise to follow back!
I have yet to decide what I’ll do with the recipes and patterns I have posted here. I’m not ready to let go entirely, but maybe it’s time to rethink how I use this space. When you think about it that way, it isn’t Goodbye so much as it is To be continued…
Until then…
