Seven Years of The Suitcase Scholar: A Hastily-Written Happy Birthday
I forgot that today is my blog’s birthday. Timehop reminded me. I feel badly. What kind of cold hearted blogger forgets to wish her blog a happy birthday? This kind, apparently.
But I’m pretty sure The Suitcase Scholar will forgive me. After all, it’s a non-sentient virtual construct. So, like, its feelings literally cannot be hurt. You know, because it doesn’t have feelings.
Still. I want to write something to commemorate this day. I did a really thorough job of documenting the evolution of The Suitcase Scholar in last year’s birthday post. So this year, a short love letter instead. Ahem…
Dear Suitcase Scholar,
I’ve loved you since the day you were born, seven years ago as I headed out on my way to a writing conference in Vermont. You were so little then. When I look at you today, I can’t believe you are the same blog as that dot-Wordpress site I brought into the world in 2009.
The world is different now. Today there’s Instagram and Snapchat and Pinterest. Images are in and words are on their way out–in 2016 if you’re not a meme, you’re tl;dr. People like to say that blogging is dead. But I disagree. I there were times this past year when I thought perhaps both of us had reached the end of the line.
But we’re both still here. Hell to the fucking yes on that one.
Happy birthday, little blog. I love you more than you know.
xoxoxo
~Tracy
YES, you are both still here- and kicking (high kicks, too)!!! Happy Birthday! People thought books were dead– still around. Movie theatres- especially drive-insp- dead years ago- right? But my 7 and 6 year old grandsons were so excited to tell me about going to a drive-in last weekend. Blogs will be around for a long time. I think memes will fade before too long- or at least diminish. Images can tell a limited story- words are almost unlimited. And you are sooooo gifted with words. It is blogs like this one that prove that writing will not pass into that long night…….
I hope you are right, Toni!
Happy Birthday blog! I’m glad that you are still writing as I always look forward to reading your posts!