I am sorry to say that I have to pause this blog for a while. I’m not sure how long. At the moment, there are too many irons in my fire, and some­thing had to go.

Stay tuned. I promise I’ll be back.

Update: This point in my blog­ging sim­ply turned into my giv­ing myself the free­dom to post less often. Again. Thanks for your patience with me as I keep chang­ing my per­sonal blog­ging experience.

A friend and I had a dis­cus­sion about inspi­ra­tion and blog­ging. Some­times the spark of cre­ativ­ity has left. Some­times I wait for the inspi­ra­tion fairy to touch me, and some­times that just doesn’t happen.

My friend asked if my move from 5 posts a week to 2–3 had been good for my traf­fic and engage­ment. I replied that Shiny Bits is my per­sonal shar­ing with inter­ested peo­ple — and I don’t mind that much if traf­fic and engage­ment result.

Sure, I’d love for thou­sands to enjoy what I put up here. But I won’t water down my posts to try to bring those thou­sands to my fold. Instead, it’s grat­i­fy­ing when a real con­nec­tion is made and lasts. That makes it all worthwhile.

Thanks for enjoy­ing what Shiny Bits offers. And thanks for some­times being my inspi­ra­tion fairy.

By the way, this great fairy paint­ing is from Dover Pub­li­ca­tions. They have lots of copyright-free images for your blog­ging plea­sure. And they didn’t share who the painter was.

I started blog­ging on August 24, 2005. My first per­sonal blog was My Part of Nairobi. My sec­ond was My Part of Col­orado. My third? It’s what you are hold­ing in your hands now.

Blog­ging, it has been good to me. And hope­fully to you too. If you’ve been with me since Nairobi, you deserve a loy­alty card! If you’ve arrived since then, Check out some of that old stuff. You will enjoy the ride, I promise.