I'm excited to progress to the next chapter of my writing life. Having blogged for almost a decade, I'm ready to move on to other projects. sarahleastories.com will still be around, but I won't be devoting any exclusive time to it. Blogging has been excellent practice for writing short. Now, it's time to curate all those poems and essays and compile them into several books/restructure them into publishable pieces. Working full-time, homeschooling, and ensuring my precious family time, I no longer have the time or energy to devote to blogging—time that would be better spent writing for a shortlist of magazines and self-publishing on Amazon. I decided several months ago that Instagram would be my new blog. It's free (WordPress is free but to have the URL without the .wordpress.com isn't), and Instagram's format is so much brighter. I'd also like to finish my creative writing degree, which I'll only be able to do during the summer semesters. I don't just write now but invent board games, design jigsaw puzzles, create early childhood education teaching materials, and so forth. I've considered starting a podcast, but that's another project for another day. I have too many unfinished projects, writing and otherwise, calling for my attention (begging to be completed). I have too many goals I want to help my eldest daughter reach, too many recipes I've yet to try, too many field trips I haven't yet planned... The poem "The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver comes to mind: Tell me, what is it you plan to do / With your one wild and precious life? My answer? More than I possibly have time for, but that doesn't mean I won't try.