As 2007 draws to a close we naturally look back on the year that’s gone by and forward to what we want to achieve in the year ahead.  I’ve been doing some of that too.  I’ve got bundles of ideas that I want to take forward as part of my writing coach work and I know that I need and want to make this the priority for 2008. 

This has consequences for my time spent blogging.  Even for a prolific blogger like me I can’t maintain my Confident Writing site, guest write at four other blogs and give Coaching Wizardry its fair share of attention.  So I’ve decided that this – the 150th post – will be the last live update here. 

I’m going to maintain the site as an archive because there are lots of gems contained within it, and I hope people will continue to enjoy exploring it in the months and years to come.  I’ve been doing a bit of work dusting down the archives and will post a few ‘best of’ pieces in the next day or so to make it easy for new readers and visitors to find their way around.

But I couldn’t close this particular chapter without a huge thanks to all of you.  This is the site where I started blogging – and caught the blogging bug as a result of the huge amount of support, encouragement and feedback that I got from all of you.  It meant a huge amount to me, and I treasure the blogging friendships that have emerged through our conversations and exchanges here.

If you want to keep in touch please do come over and join me at Confident Writing – I will continue to blog with a passion and a fury there.

For now though I all I can say is thanks.  Sincerely, thanks.

Joanna

And it wouldn’t do to close without a thanks to Erik Kastner for the fantastic spell with flickr service – and thanks to Rosa for pointing me towards it.          

Anyway, the message was that this friend and his family were going to "do a Joanna" this weekend, finishing on the Thursday evening and returning at leisure on Tuesday. 

The expression made me smile.  It seemed like a good way to be remembered