Perhaps the better question for this post should be, what is to become of chortles?  There is a simple (yet somewhat problematic) answer: I don’t know.   As you can tell from my four-plus month (unannounced) hiatus from my blogging, I’ve been rather uninspired for this blog.  I think I bit off a bit more than I could chew, really.  I knew what I wanted to do with this blog when I started it, but I feel as if I limited myself in its contents.

Let me elaborate a bit.  I wanted to make a blog that highlighted my adventures with food and design.   This is what my favorite blogs did, so surely I could emulate.  And therein lies the problem!  I tried to emulate my favorite blogs.  I soon ran out of ideas, and my posts became unauthentic.  Looking back over my most recent blogs, I realize only a couple stick out as feeling genuine to who I am.  One of these posts is entitled “Tales of a Wandering Tenor.”  I went outside of my blog’s main focus, and I took a second to rally through my emotions.  I’ve always enjoyed reflective writing (regardless of its level of true depth), and I think I need a blog outlet that allows me to do this.

Which brings me to my next point.  I think I’ve decided to officially stop this blogging venture and start something new.  I’ll definitely post here when this new blog has come into fruition.  Until then, I will be deciding exactly what I want to do in order to write an authentic blog.  There will always be elements of this blog in my future blogging, for sure.  I don’t think I could write about my life without mentioning things I find aesthetically pleasing.  But trying to focus on those things only?  I just don’t think I can do it successfully.  I’ll probably keep this blog up, also, in order to preserve a snippet of time in my life.

In closing, thanks for joining me on this journey!  Soon, I’ll have a new outlet for myself, and I can’t wait to share it with you.