The online blogging community lost one hell of a blogger today as The Burgh Blog decided to cease operations. You can read the final post here. The Burgh Blog ran for three years and though I did not become aware of the blog until earlier this year, it was one that I checked almost daily since then to read PittGirl's latest stories and happenings in and around Pittsburgh.
Living outside of Pittsburgh for the past two years, reading the Burgh Blog always made me feel that I was staying in touch with the city and its people. PittGirl shared a love for Pittsburgh that many readers knew all too well and made others long to return to the city. Her writing was intellectual, witty, honest, humorous, real and in short, fantastic.
We here at The Wheelhouse know the inordinate amount of time it takes to put into something as simple as a daily post. And how a various number of things get in the way of writing with the biggest obstacle being life. Life gets in the way: That 9-5 job, the commute to and from work, family, old friends, new friends, kids, significant others, emergencies, etc. So for whatever reasons she chose, we can understand the decision to stop the blog with everything else going on in life. As I'm sure it will be hard on PittGirl to stop doing what she loves after three years, it'll be almost as tough to not be able to check it anymore and read the insightful writing. PittGirl, thanks for the daily breaks from our lives...you will be missed.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
The Burgh Blog Ends
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Hi. I'm trying to respond to everyone so I just wanted to take a minute to thank you for writing such a wonderful post about me. It was very hard for me to stop writing, and it still is very hard, but I have hope that it will lead to something better that will once again allow me to share my thoughts with this city that I love. Thanks again. I'll be reading.
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