[Update: the move is done!]
My heart is breaking a bit as I announce that Chicana on the Edge (CotE) is moving to a new home, which means a new URL, which means I’m creating a new website for it. Nothing will change about your access to the blog or how often I post, but for about ten years I’ve regretted creating CotE on Blogger.com and not WordPress.org so I’m finally moving it. All my links will stay on this site, but they’ll direct you to the new website where you’ll be able to read all of my posts – old and new. (By the way, “CotE” is pronounced with two syllables.)
The new blog address is www.reginachicana.com. On this website I have total control of the site, the content, the design and the comments. I’ve always felt nervous about all my original writing being on Blogger’s platform. I’ll be able to build out my new site when I finish the book I’m working on. At that point I’ll add a new page to promote it (some time in 2021? 2022?). The new site will simply have much more flexibility and it’s time for that now that I’m expanding as a writer.
I’m very excited about moving into this new phase, yet I feel oddly sad about this. I started this blog in 2004 when I was 37 years old and I still felt like the important parts of my life were ahead of me. I had yet to find a husband or the job that would take me to retirement. On June 17, 2004 when I launched this blog, I still believed it was possible to cure my depression, get married forever and settle into a mostly contented life. And I was slim. Oh, I was slim…
Almost exactly sixteen years later I’m fat, divorced, no longer believe depression can be left behind and have no idea if I’ll find a mostly contented life with anyone. But at least that last one might still be up to me, I hope.
So I finally step off the “starter” platform that has supported me all these years. On the 16-year anniversary of Chicana on the Edge I migrate all the posts to the new website. Once I’ve moved it all to www.reginachicana.com, I plan to keep CotE going for at least another sixteen years. Good-bye, Blogger.