November 2011

Relishing 2011

by rebecca on November 30, 2011

I had intended for this post to go out MUCH earlier today, but alas, as we all know “intentions” and “expectations” can often fly right out the window. (Especially when we get to tinkering with our new website and making it even better! Have you not seen it yet!? Get over here!)

Anyway, that’s not what I came here to talk about…

What I wanted to share was that as there (sadly) will be no official “reveb11″ to participate in I have decided to do my own sort of daily writing project: Relish11. This has been a very full year for me, as it may well have been for you too, so I wanted to share what I was planning on, and invite you to partake as well. I will be starting tomorrow with the first post (over on relish-life.com, come on over!) and run straight on through with a new prompt each day up to the end of the month. I will be sharing my posts on twitter with the hashtag of #relish11, and I would love it if you did the same, so that our collective efforts can be found and enjoyed. In the interest of planning ahead, I will be posting a week’s worth of prompts each Monday morning (but that won’t start till this coming Monday!) so you can see what I have in store for us. Please feel free to post links to your writing in the comments for the prompt post each morning or in reply to my own contribution later that day… Last year finding other amazing writers was the highlight of the project for me.

Every year has the potential to bring about a unique set of changes and challenges, things you’re happy to remember and others you wouldn’t mind forgetting. But as it draws to an end I can’t help but feel that what a year really has the potential to do is to reveal to us where we were, what our lives were made of, and who we got to be while living each day, not knowing the importance it might carry once the date changed for good.

As a special bonus, and because I love this time of year, I will be hosting a series of giveaways the whole month, 10 in all. The first one will be on Monday, so feel free to check back in to get all the details on that.

I am wishing all of you, wherever you are, whatever holiday you might be celebrating, a joyous time in your life. I think we all could use it. :)

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I’m excited…

by rebecca on November 28, 2011

One of my most favorite photos ever taken of moi, by the incredible Ashley Keleman.

To be back!! (consider this Post Numero Uno! I love a fresh start!)
You’re here! (thank you for reading, for coming back, and for all the sweet messages in between!)
To be starting a special month of blogging this week! This year has been a big one for me, and I feel like celebrating! (you *may want to check back on Wednesday for the deets on this one!)

If you are reading this on a blog reader you will want to make a change this week too. Going forward SimplyRebecca.com will be directed at my new site, complete with it’s own shiny new blog, at Relish-life.com. That’s just one of many updates that will be coming, so don’t change that dial! :)

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Not really gone…

by rebecca on November 3, 2011

It would seem like I’ve abandoned this space, but I’m not really gone.
It would seem (thanks to the foot of snow we got IN OCTOBER!) that Autumn is over, but it’s not really gone.
It would seem like there is uncertainty about whether this space will remain now that I have begun moving over to the Relish Life site, but it’s not really gone. Yet.

Sometimes I step away from this space. I dive deep into other things and finding, or making, the time to come here falls to the wayside. I don’t really like how that feels, so I’m going to try to finish up these restructurings I’m working on so I can begin coming here more routinely. It just feels better that way. I miss you all. I have  a number of unanswered questions about how this blog fits into what I’m building… But they are the good kind of questions, the exciting and hopeful kind. The kind that are okay to let linger, and feel within that the answers are coming, exactly how and when they should.

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