Hard as it is for me to believe, I’ve been blogging for over five years straight, since I started my first blogspot blog back in July 2004. (All the archives from that have since been imported over here.) That’s three cities, two jobs, a handful of churches, various political mutations, and heaven knows how many heavy metal videos ago.

Lately, though, it’s tough to shake the feeling that I’m phoning it in and/or writing things I’ve written before. I had only the vaguest idea of what I hoped to get out of blogging in the first place (organizing my thoughts? connecting with other people?), but I’m starting to think that the the experience has been sucked dry. Or maybe it’s just a temporary drought. Who knows?

Either way, I think I’ve earned a little time off, especially since no one’s paying me to do this. It’s surprising it took this long for it to happen, but lately the blog feels more like an obligation than a hobby. Not sure how much time off, but at least until I feel like I have something to say beyond chiming in on the latest political dust-up or re-hashing the same arguments about theology or animal rights or whatever for the umpteenth time.

Regardless, I hope you, dear reader, have gotten some enjoyment out of this blog. Thanks, as ever, for stopping by, and thanks to all the folks who have linked, commented, or otherwise supported this blog over the years.

–The Management