We’re going on indefinite hiatus. It’s pretty hard to say right now what the long-term future holds for EastNashvilleBlog.com. The only sure thing is that we won’t be featuring any new content in the short term. Thanks for reading.
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Thank You, East Nashville
Earlier this week, as I fought off a nasty little respiratory bug I’d caught during my housewarming party a few days before, I was checking out the back-end of this little blog and noticed there was a milestone approaching: we were closing in on 30,000 hits over the lifetime of the site. Given that all the attention we’ve gotten here has been through word-of-mouth and search engine referrals, that struck me as a pretty significant number. The next morning a few hits from Google put us over that mark, and I felt like I should take a moment to thank everyone who has helped this blog get to where it is today.
Thanks for your support!
To my writers Lindsey Boise, Mat Lavigne, Ginger Burden, Aaron Coleman, Bobby Shamwell and Rachel Hall Kirk: Thank you for your contributions, large and small. You’ve each helped to add intelligence and verve to this site through your unique voices, and your counsel has been invaluable since I started this venture. I’m grateful for the work and the time you’ve so generously donated.
To our readers: Without you, all of us here at the blog would be screaming into the void. You’re the reason we’re still publishing today. Neither I nor any of my contributors make any money off this blog. We just like where we live, and we want to share our fondness with a world that is increasingly turning its gaze to this little corner of Music City. Seeing positive comments from our readers, not to mention appreciative emails from the independent artists and business owners who have asked us to write about their endeavors, is more than worth the cost of hosting the East Nashville Blog. Those notes of appreciation make up for the handful of Debbie Downers out there who, in fits of pique, have occasionally taken their personal issues out on us in the last year and a half. Knowing that there are people out there who get what we’re doing, people who enjoy hearing about the East side from a local perspective, gives us the drive to keep taking time out from all the other work we do.
Building something out of nothing is never easy. Thankfully, we enjoy the support of a dynamic community. All of you have helped to defy the laws of probability and keep this site going, and I sincerely hope you’ll be able to continue helping us for a long time to come.
East Nashville Blog Hiatus
As you might know from my brief bio here on the site, I write for a living. The East Nashville Blog is a labor of love, and the thing about labors of love is that they necessarily hit the sidelines when your professional life is taken over by a big project. I’m currently in the throes of such an undertaking, and since I also serve as the lone editor here in addition to my writing duties, that means the blog is going on hiatus. We’re certainly not going away completely – there will probably be an occasional post or two while my attention is held by the work that pays my bills, but I won’t make any guarantees because the project I’m working on is all-consuming. One thing is for sure: I’ll be looking forward with great anticipation to jumping headlong back into the East Nashville scene once this project is concluded next month.
To all who read this blog, on a daily basis or otherwise – thank you. Your support means a lot, both to me and to my staff of writers, and I hope you’ll return when we’re back in action once again.
We’re Glad to Be Nashville, Too
An impending house closing and some tight, looming deadlines at the day job have me too busy for regular posting on the East Nashville Blog at the moment, but I wanted to take a quick moment to let all of you know that yes, we are still here, and yes, we will be getting back to our normal music and food blogging fairly soon. That regular posting will actually be interrupted again at the end of the month for a bit longer; I’ll have more on that for you soon.
In the meantime, I just want to tell you all that it’s really been something special watching this city come together in the wake of the flood, with or without attention from the national media. The response of people here in Nashville – getting to work regardless of who’s paying attention – is the kind of thing that makes me proud to call this city home.