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Adieu!

by Hillary Rettig|  March 15, 20171:41 pm| 56 Comments

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Hi Everyone,

The Romanovs abdicated today, and so shall I. As you might have predicted from my recent sparse posting, I’ve decided to give up my front page status. That’s for a lot of reasons, including that I’ve got a bunch of other writing projects going on, and there’s a limit to how much time I can spend at a keyboard.

I’m really grateful to John for the opportunity, and also to the other Front Pagers (esp. Betty and TaMara and Alain) for their help and support at various times.

The best part of the gig was the Juicers I met in person during the Meetups. You were all wonderful!

And getting to support my favored candidate–by whom I mean, of course, Baud. :-)

Best to everyone here – I’ll be lurking!
Hillary

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56Comments

  1. 1.

    Brachiator

    March 15, 2017 at 1:42 pm

    Happy vegan trails to you!

  2. 2.

    Cermet

    March 15, 2017 at 1:43 pm

    Glad to have had you here; best of luck and have fun lurking!

  3. 3.

    JPL

    March 15, 2017 at 1:44 pm

    Don’t just lurk, comment! Good luck on your other writing projects.

  4. 4.

    Bob2

    March 15, 2017 at 1:45 pm

    Comment when you can!

  5. 5.

    Another Scott

    March 15, 2017 at 1:45 pm

    Being busy is good! Thanks for all of your contributions here. Glad you’ll be sticking around with us here in the peanut gallery.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  6. 6.

    Ohio Mom

    March 15, 2017 at 1:47 pm

    Thanks for the provoked thoughts, and posts that were touching and moving (thinking here especially of the caretaker one).

    Good Luck! We’ll look for you in the comments.

  7. 7.

    Arclite

    March 15, 2017 at 1:47 pm

    Good luck, and fair travels, although you know that once granted, front page status is never revoked. So perhaps we’ll still see you here from time to time if the mood strikes you!

  8. 8.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 15, 2017 at 1:47 pm

    Please do continue to bark/meow up from time to time as you lurk!

  9. 9.

    David Hunt

    March 15, 2017 at 1:48 pm

    Good luck in your endeavors.

  10. 10.

    Baud

    March 15, 2017 at 1:49 pm

    I hope you’ll be back after you are done with your projects. Baud! 2020! needs you!

  11. 11.

    hugely

    March 15, 2017 at 1:49 pm

    thank you Hillary – from a long time lurker

  12. 12.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    March 15, 2017 at 1:51 pm

    Thank you for your effort, Hillary! I’ve enjoyed your posts and hope you’ll continue to pop in, especially in the Writers Group.

  13. 13.

    hovercraft

    March 15, 2017 at 1:51 pm

    Best of luck, take care of yourself and your four legged friends ;-)

  14. 14.

    Baud

    March 15, 2017 at 1:52 pm

    I still intend to read your procrastination book one day.

  15. 15.

    Aleta

    March 15, 2017 at 1:52 pm

    I liked your posts very much, as well as your decency as you engaged with people. And the particular energy, optimism, outrage, caring. Appreciated your focus, including on obstacles. Thanks.

  16. 16.

    SFBayAreaGal

    March 15, 2017 at 1:53 pm

    Thank you Hillary for all your posts. I will miss you. Best of luck on your writings. I hope you won’t be just a lurker. Please comment when you can.

  17. 17.

    GregB

    March 15, 2017 at 1:55 pm

    Thanks to you and to all who contribute.

  18. 18.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 15, 2017 at 1:55 pm

    @Baud: ISWYDT

  19. 19.

    bystander

    March 15, 2017 at 1:56 pm

    @hugely: Cousin of bigly?

  20. 20.

    David Anderson

    March 15, 2017 at 1:56 pm

    Best of luck Hillary — and if you are ever in the Triangle let’s grab a beer or a coffee

  21. 21.

    J R in WV

    March 15, 2017 at 1:59 pm

    Thanks for stopping by, Hillary!

    You are one of the good ones, please keep in touch, esp. when good things happen around you, or when you need picked back up!

    Take care, and best of luck.

    PS: best of luck is one of those tiny phrases which a small fumble-fingered typo could make into a rabid jackal sort of remark~!!! I never noticed that before!

  22. 22.

    Hillary Rettig

    March 15, 2017 at 1:59 pm

    Thank you all!

  23. 23.

    Starfish

    March 15, 2017 at 2:00 pm

    Thanks for posting here and meeting up with us.

  24. 24.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 15, 2017 at 2:01 pm

    All best to you, Hillary! Still hope to meet you in person one of these times (I may be in the Battle Creek-K’zoo area briefly this fall), and I do hope you’ll comment, not just lurk. Thanks for your many thoughtful contributions.

  25. 25.

    Major Major Major Major

    March 15, 2017 at 2:05 pm

    So long and thanks for all the tempeh!

  26. 26.

    Lyrebird

    March 15, 2017 at 2:05 pm

    Thank you Hillary!

    Totally respect your decision, for all that I wish I could commission you or something like that to do some summaries of the global warming score of, say, Daiya “cheese” versus what I’m using it (for health and putatively environmental reasons, not your core motivation i kno) to replace.

    Might not be fast enough to fight the pipeline, but eating more oats peas beans and barley oh is one way anyone with a stove can fight the global-warming deniers, I say!

    Peace.

  27. 27.

    Lyrebird

    March 15, 2017 at 2:07 pm

    @J R in WV: Dude! I read but was too late to reply to your thoughtful medical comment… fair but the good news is, taking the Tamiflu with food cuts the queasiness.

    Thank *you* for all you do to bring the positive & the constructive into the comment stream.

  28. 28.

    Alain the site fixer

    March 15, 2017 at 2:07 pm

    You’ve got the keys so you can always come back! Thanks for adding your voice and passion to the site

  29. 29.

    Alain the site fixer

    March 15, 2017 at 2:09 pm

    @Baud: is the site better for you after I reset the android settings?

  30. 30.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 15, 2017 at 2:11 pm

    FWIW Julius Caesar also “resigned” in this date. Best of luck to you.

  31. 31.

    p.a.

    March 15, 2017 at 2:11 pm

    Namarie!

    to repeat; don’t just lurk.

  32. 32.

    rikyrah

    March 15, 2017 at 2:18 pm

    Hope that you will come back FPing again one day. :)

  33. 33.

    pamelabrown53

    March 15, 2017 at 2:20 pm

    @Hillary Rettig: #22.

    You’re welcome, Hillary. It makes sense that you’d focus your writing skills and attention in venues with more positive feedback and support. I think it’s astute of you to realize that BJ may not provide the best platform for your messages.
    Wishing you the best in your future writing endeavors.
    Best luck and light,
    pamelabrown

  34. 34.

    HRA

    March 15, 2017 at 2:20 pm

    Thank you for all you wrote here. My best wishes to you for your choice and hoping you will someday come back.

  35. 35.

    Peter

    March 15, 2017 at 2:26 pm

    Thanks especially for helping organize the writers group.

  36. 36.

    Baud

    March 15, 2017 at 2:30 pm

    @Alain the site fixer: I’ll let you know. The problem is intermittent. I don’t recall having an issue this morning.

  37. 37.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    March 15, 2017 at 2:38 pm

    Be well, and thanks.

  38. 38.

    MazeDancer

    March 15, 2017 at 2:40 pm

    May all go well, Hillary. Thanks for all your planet and animal helping words.

  39. 39.

    laura

    March 15, 2017 at 2:42 pm

    Warm wishes in all your endeavors and thank you for your kind and thoughtful posts.

  40. 40.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 15, 2017 at 2:48 pm

    @Lyrebird:

    Might not be fast enough to fight the pipeline, but eating more oats peas beans and barley oh is one way anyone with a stove can fight the global-warming deniers, I say!

    Wow! There’s a lovely nursery song I haven’t thought of in many, many decades! Thanks for reminding me of it.

  41. 41.

    Pogonip

    March 15, 2017 at 2:52 pm

    I enjoyed reading you!

  42. 42.

    PaulW

    March 15, 2017 at 2:55 pm

    good luck with the other writing projects and all.

    but you’ll be back.

    you’ll see.

    mwhahahahahahahahahahahahaha cough wheeze hahahahahahahahiccup

  43. 43.

    Yarrow

    March 15, 2017 at 2:58 pm

    Wishing you the best of luck in your endeavors. I particularly enjoyed your posts here on animals. Please comment as your time allows.

  44. 44.

    Feebog

    March 15, 2017 at 3:05 pm

    Enjoyed your posts. Please don’t just lurk, be a frequent commenter and hang around. Good luck in your writing projects.

  45. 45.

    qwerty42

    March 15, 2017 at 3:15 pm

    Best wishes, Hillary. Hope you can be here more frequently in the future.

  46. 46.

    hedgehog the occasional commenter

    March 15, 2017 at 3:26 pm

    Thanks, Hillary! Glad I got a chance to meet you, and I hope to get to K-Zoo for the medievalists’ conference sometime soon (not this year, alas…) If you’re ever back in Denver, you know how to find me :) Good luck in all your future work.

  47. 47.

    Patricia Kayden

    March 15, 2017 at 3:33 pm

    Ms. Hillary, I bookmarked your page on “5 Ways to go Invisibly Vegan in 2016”. Thanks for your animal activism and vegan championing. All the best in your other ventures.

  48. 48.

    raven

    March 15, 2017 at 3:36 pm

    Happy Trails.

  49. 49.

    guachi

    March 15, 2017 at 3:50 pm

    I appreciate your posts. It’s an unpaid gig, but I thank you for the time you’ve put in.

    Just remember, John leaves the door open for everyone so come back when you have time and the urge to say something to us.

  50. 50.

    middlelee

    March 15, 2017 at 4:43 pm

    I enjoyed your posts and appreciate the work you do for animals and the planet.
    Best to you in your other endeavors.

  51. 51.

    Mnemosyne

    March 15, 2017 at 4:52 pm

    Good luck!

    ETA: I currently have my feet up on Tom Sawyer Island waiting for my nieces to satisfy their curiosity about it. At least my knee is holding up okay.

  52. 52.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 15, 2017 at 5:25 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    Glad to hear it!

  53. 53.

    Anne Laurie

    March 15, 2017 at 5:35 pm

    Kudos to you for fighting the good fight(s), Hillary — and, as others have said, I hope you’ll comment when you can, and you’re always free to post again as your other writing projects permit.

  54. 54.

    debbie

    March 15, 2017 at 6:39 pm

    Thanks and good luck!

  55. 55.

    Bumper

    March 15, 2017 at 7:01 pm

    Aleta at 15 expressed my thoughts so much better than I could have. Also want to say thank you for your caregiver posts. I wasn’t ready to share my caregiving experiences yet but felt kinship with those who did. Those posts meant a lot to me.

  56. 56.

    Scamp Dog

    March 15, 2017 at 11:26 pm

    I’ll miss reading your posts, and I hope to see you comment now and again. I enjoyed meeting you when you came out to Denver, and would be happy to meet up again!

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