Updates

You know what is not conducive to high-quality and frequent blogging? My life right now, that's what. As is fairly obvious by now, I am having a very hard time keeping up with my mandatory obligations -- my Harvard job, my column, various community and family involvements, getting my health back on track -- and also posting both here and at robinabrahams.com on a daily and/or lengthy basis.

So I'm going to take a step back for a while and reassess, both what my priorities need to be, and what this blog and my personal blog ought to be.

In the meantime, I'd welcome your suggestions. I don't know about you, but I really enjoyed our discussion about Valentine's Day and romance. I'd like to do more of that. I enjoy posting letters and hearing your responses, too, but I'm not sure how valuable it is to you for me to write up the summaries. What do you think? When I post letters, would you like me to tell you my opinion in advance? Or do you like being uninfluenced by my framing and thoughts on the issue?

Do tell.

And while there's been a lot of comparison by commenters between this blog and Love Letters, this will never be the Love Letters blog. I am a freelancer, and Meredith is on staff. She has more time to devote to it, she has different software than I've been given yet, and boston.com gives her more home-page space, which means that she gets a lot more newbies with every post. This blog will always be smaller and more intimate (the after-party, as it were), and moderation will be done by me, not by community policing, because of how the software works.

(In fact, I've never even met Meredith! However, we'll both be participating in a talkback at the Huntington Theatre's production of "Becky Shaw" on March 21 -- I look forward to meeting her, and hopefully some of you, there as well. Might Marcus and abigail adams meet in person for the first time? Will sparks fly? I can't wait!)

In the meantime, what would you like to see more of, less of? Let me know, and next week I'll kick this baby up again, in a way that will hopefully be more valuable for all of us, and sustainable for me.

UPDATE: Oh, for the love of Ceiling Cat. I just looked at this blog from the reader's view -- i.e., the way you see it, not the internal way I manage it -- and all your comments have been disappeared. They are still coming through, and I can read them, so they haven't gone into the Pit of Oblivion entirely, they're just not showing up. Sorry about that. I've contacted tech support to ask what's up.  In the meantime, feel free to scream into the lonely void, knowing I at least will hear you, and sooner or later, they'll get it fixed so everyone else can, too.