Why am I the person to be writing this story?
I’m not.
I am not a doctor. I am not a scientist. I am not a child psychologist. I have absolutely no qualifications as a childcare professional.
This story is not my story.
I am still a skeptic, but that is not all that I am. Most of my free time for the past 9 months has been consumed by this subject, and I feel that it has had a larger role than perhaps it should have.
I have said more times than I can count that skepticism is a tool. I have begun to feel like a carpenter, writing a blog about his favorite hammer. It is time to stop talking about the hammer, and start building.
For the past few weeks, I have looked for a way to incorporate other aspects of my life into this blog, but to no avail. It is with more than a little bit of sadness that I announce that this is my last post at Domestic Father.
I have been overwhelmed by the success of this blog, and I cannot adequately express how grateful I am to all of you who took the time to read here, link here, and comment here.
But, there are other things I wish to learn about, to write about. These are for my other blog, evenlake, where I have decided to continue some of the topics of this blog. Just not exclusively.
I can only hope you will chose to join me there, but I understand that it may not be to your liking. If you want to know what it’s about, visit the About page. Or you can just trust me and subscribe to the RSS feed sight unseen.
I will continue to manage Skeptical Parent Crossing, periodically hosting and submitting articles as well. I will keep reading and commenting on your blogs, and will remain a member of the community. I just no longer have the time nor the inclination to maintain a blog devoted solely to skepticism. It is time for me to move on.
Thank you again for your time and your attention, and I hope to see you around.
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Sorry to see you go. I’ve only recently stumbled across this blog and enjoyed it very much. Good luck.
Wow. You discover the need to tell a story…and decide that you are not the one to be telling it? Hmmmm. Why not change the subheading and start again, why not tell your story of being a stay at home dad, you are increasingly an expert there – why not have part of that story exploring your interest in skepticism and whatever else it is that makes you the stay-at-home dad that you are.
Why not recognise that we, as your readership, have found something useful and interesting in your posts. I think you’ve not given yourself enough credit. Maybe we read not for your expertise (or lack of) in skepticism, but for the insights into your life, for the grabs of story that make us reflect on our own lives.
I’ve valued this blog since I found it. I think the story consultant opened up many great questions and I think there are more stories to tell, I think the narrative arch is more than skepticism, the narrative arch is stay-at-home fathering. Something that is more than evenlake, something this blog does that I didn’t read in your writing over there.
Hoping Blake, you’ll reconsider. But, understand if this is the end.
Shane-Thanks, and I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Dan-I agree with you completely, which is why I’ve decided to do this. There is a lot more to explore, and for me this site is too niche-focused in skepticism to address it all. I think most of the readers here were used to the skepticism angle, and rather than change this site’s focus, I decided to roll it into evenlake.
Evenlake had been sort of an afterthought for me, which meant I didn’t really give it the same kind of attention. By having only one site, I hope to continue what I’ve started here, but without worrying about each post being on topic.
Thank you for your kind words, and I hope you’ll bear with me at evenlake until I can get back in the rhythm.
Sound reasoning. I’ll re-set my RSS feeds and follow evenlake.
cheers
I feel like a disowned cousin.
Good luck with your reincarnation. I’m glad you’ll be keeping the x’ing going.
I don’t think you need a title to be a skeptical parent (beyond Mommy or Daddy, that is). I’m sorry you’ve decided to close up shop…but best of luck with your future blogging endeavors!
Congrats on the progress and thank you for blogging your creative process. It was enlightening.
Those darn story consultants! They get you to figure out you should stop writing! Anyway, best of luck. I can kind of relate to how much time the research end of blogging about skepticism can take. It really is time consuming. What keeps me going is that I live in LA and have to hear so many crazy things all the time about vaccines, organic food, extended breast feeding, and on and on and on. I suppose I could just turn the other cheek, but instead, I get on the bloggy soap box.
Thank you to all for your support.
Julie-It’s not that she helped me figure out that I should stop writing, just that I’d stop writing here. I’ll still be writing over at evenlake, just not exclusively about skepticism or parenting.
I’ve learned so much from this blog, and it really was a tough decision. But, I wanted to wrap it up before the content suffered, and didn’t want to switch topics suddenly. I thought either approach was unfair to the readers who were used to what I was doing here.
Shoot, hate to see a fellow skeptical blog go away, but I understand and support your decision, and if you’ll be happier, then have at it! My feed reader has been switched over…
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