welcome to your new home dan !
i like it.  :)

gosh. things sure do look pretty around here. damn, sawni and i make a damn fine team.

oh yeah. and i guess you write okay too. ♥

thanks you ladies, I appreciate it.  and a double-damn from pea - you know that’s serious props!

I’m glad I saw your post about the new location before I popped this baby out! I can only imagine my distress at finding the computer after a couple weeks of no sleep only to discover that you weren’t where I left you.

It looks great, and I’m glad you weren’t writing a “I’m hanging this blogging gig up” post. That would leave a hole in the www that would be too big to fill.

Whoa!  Cool man.  Great to see a neat new site to match your great writing.

yeah, i too started reading this one—afraid that you were going to end it by saying, so long and thanks for all the fish.  welcome to your new home Dan, it looks great!  and it’s been good to make your acquaintance in this virtual space and later in person.

and to the meat of you post, i too have seen my share of bloggers come and go, and i think that in a way the blogosphere is a microcosm of the real world.  no matter what you do, old friends will drift away, so you need to continually make new ones.  and just as your real-world friends will call you less and less if you don’t call them, so will your blogger friends if you stop commenting.  i’m guilty of this myself, i know.

this comment has turned in to a post of its’ own!  maybe i should just move it over to my own place.  :) anyway, welcome to your new blog home.  when’s the housewarming party?

Well! That was an emotional rollercoaster, reading that post of yours, wondering what you were ultimately going to tell us. He’s leaving? He’s breaking? He’s going to post a photo of himself nude in front of his computer, blogging? The stress was unbelievable.

But here I am, posting a comment on your beautiful new blog. I have not yet taken the ‘housewarming tour’; rest assured, I will. But I wanted to first put my foot on the doormat and say I’m glad you’re staying in the blogosphere—in particular since you were MY first introduction to this world of blogging, for which I am grateful.

Best wishes to you in your new blogging home, and I look forward to continuing to visit you on a (very!) regular basis.

Love,
Randa

I dunno...I think if you kept that obsolete blogger template just a few more months, it would suddenly become retro cool again. Like Tom Jones.  Or the Bush administration.

We have very similar reasons for continuing to blog.  Stats has minimal impact.

The new place looks great, rockstar.  And it’s much cooler to have your own domain rather than dangling off someone else’s.

lookin’ good, bro!!!  i was concerned at the tone of your post....thought you were gonna say you were done with writing....but how could that possibly be?  it defies all the universal rules i’ve grown up with.  (up with which i’ve grown.)

your site looks fabulous, dahlink!

As long you’re writing, I’ll be here, reading. I love what you do. Congratulations on the new crib, my friend. Now, about that ceramic clown on the coffee table....

Well, well, well...isn’t this just lovely!  The Dynamic Duo did us all proud.  What a wonderful visual design to compliment your much beloved writing.

Dan, your writing enriches my life.  Through your words I experience the world in a completely different and often much deeper way and that is a priceless gift...thank you.

Nice digs.  I’m here.

Very spiffy.

Always a faithful reader.

Keep up the great writing!

I admit that I’m often more of a lurker than a commenter, quite frankly b/c I can’t always think of something as witty or memorable to match your post.

I’m not posting or reading blogs as often as I used to, and I’ve noticed most of my blogroll is the same way.  Seems like it initially fills a void.

finally...a Chucklehut that feels like Chuckes himself would live here...Patricia and Sawni rock socks...oh and the essay was nice too.  :-)

I enjoyed this post, simply because you articulated with grace, the transformative stages blogging over the years becomes for many of us, or at least I know I can relate.

The public vulnerability is good for the soul, no matter what form it takes. The blogging community, is like R/L community, it shifts, it changes, and grows.

faithful reader, infrequent commenter MIA says : I love the new look. VERY spiffy.

2006 is a year of renewal for a lot of us… personally, I am going to try to write CONTENT vs. “I’m too busy to write anything” so watchout! ;-)

it does seem harder and harder to find the same quality, doesn’t it?  i think we start to run out of stories, newness, freshness—maybe?
i post much less than i once did, and comment much less frequently.  my stats are on the decline as well.  but i can’t give this blogging thing up, because as you said, its too great an excuse to write, and to at least try and write well.
thanks for continuing to write—and congrats on the sweet new look.

I suppose I’m one of those for whom blogging is losing a little of its allure and attraction. The thirty-odd day average between new posts probably testifies to that. But I do know that I won’t ever regret having done it, even if I eventually stop completely. And it’s because of people like you. I feel enriched by reading what you’ve shared of your life. I felt joy when you welcomed Zach into your family. I admire your honest ruminations on your faith. And though I might not ever meet you, I’m glad to have gotten to know you as a person.

It’s a nice new place you’ve got here; I hope you’ll be staying around for a long time, even if some of us might not.

I was thinking this morning (April 4) about missing the exciting days of browsing for new posts on the chucklehut and the other blogs in my virtual neighborhood and reading comments on my own posts over at the (now defunct) fourcorners.  Decided to see what was happening with the hut, and here you’ve become an internet institution!

Hope all is well with you Dan.

Elizabeth