So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye

Like the von Trapp family exiting the stage, the members of the Canadian Writers Collective bid farewell to our readers three years and nearly 700 posts after we began. We’ve given you book reviews, interviews, recipes, rants, and laments. Humourous pieces and poignant ones. We’ve run four writing contests and posted the winning entries. Played host to a number of guest bloggers.

Of the 11 CWCers who started, only five of us remain.

It’s tough to produce a weekly post year after year while also finding and losing jobs, falling in and out of love, having anxiety attacks, changing diapers, remembering to put out the garbage, washing floors, laundering clothes, taking the car in for servicing, feeding the dog, schlepping the cat to the vet, getting your hair cut, buying the kids a hamster, defrosting something for dinner, planting a garden, remembering to water the garden you planted, baking cakes and barbecuing steaks, trudging to the dentist, getting enough sleep and exercise, attending graduations, weddings and funerals, all while penning a future Giller award winning work of prose.

Thank you all for reading and commenting since April 23, 2006. You can keep up with us individually on our separate Blogger pages and, from time to time, any one of us may decide to pop in here and mouth off about something. You just never know. But for now, it’s…

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.