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mode for caleb history academia religion culture politics jazz mode for caleb nbsp caleb mcdaniel wednesday august 30 2006 closing time i ve decided that it s time for mode for caleb to come to an end that should come as little surprise to anyone who has stopped by in recent months this summer my posts dropped precipitously thanks mainly to the cross country move july had one post june had four paltry ones i had hoped that i could revive the blog in august but other time commitments have made it hard even to read blogs much less to maintain this one i have very good reasons to think that this pace would not change anytime in the next several months in the first place since i ll be teaching full time for the first time i m eager to focus on my new courses and my new students and there s another even more exciting and important reason why the blog has been slowing to a halt in just about eight weeks my wife and i will become first time parents the incredible adventure that parenting promises to be has already begun and i know the ride will only accelerate once the baby arrives right around the time i m grading final exams of course it s not that blogging necessarily takes up a lot of time i ve always been an infrequent poster by the standards of most bloggers but psychologically with parenthood and the new job on the horizon lately i ve been feeling a need to find something to throw overboard as it were blogging isn t easy to cut loose even temporarily but of all the things on my plate right now it s the least difficult to set aside and instead of turning the blog into a tedious series of silences it seems to make more sense to stop blogging altogether writing and reading until a new kind of normalcy sets in but i am not absolutely not renouncing blogging altogether there have been times when i have been tempted to shut down the blog because of blog fatigue this is not one of those times there have been other times when like every junior scholar in the blogosphere i have wondered about how to weigh the professional risks and rewards of blogging this is not one of those times in fact i agree with dan cohen that it s a great time for academics to start blogging so i m certain that my moratorium on blogging will not be indefinite at the same time i can t predict right now when it will end besides since the end of this year will find me in such a different place than i was when this blog started i think it makes sense whenever i do return to start a new blog at another address until then take care and thanks for stopping by i m extremely grateful for the exchanges and friendships that mode for caleb has made possible for me and i hope that even an extended sabbatical will not mean that they must come to an end improvised 8 41 pm permalink 17 riffs apologies to liner notes about me atom xml feed technorati links blogging in the early republic common place july 2005 favorite tracks transnational history posts jazz pilgrimages confessions of a coffee drinker the lives of frederick douglass jefferson s jesus nation the keyword revolution the first twenty minutes how to skim abolishing nuclear weapons jazz primer recent posts closing time history carnival xxxvii oasis in the city students of history a unified theory of academic willpower call for posts moving haikus update with life hacks the latest on emma dunham kelley hawkins wherein some advice is offered and some advice is closing time congratulations on the great changes you and yours are experiencing on blogging the phantom pain goes away eventually mostly good luck with the new school year and congratulations on the new addition to the family sounds like very exciting times thanks for your support of my blog as you were one of the first to include a link to my place perhaps our paths will cross at a conference in the near future enjoy the teaching wow you will be missed caleb i understand the decision right now i resent anything that takes me away from the amazing ride of early parenting but i will say i can t think of any blogger whose writing and ideas i ve respected and enjoyed more than yours it helps that we ve often shared the same let s say deliberate schedule of posting for which you need never apologize a mode for caleb post is worth a dozen of some other guys congratulations on the new job and the impending arrival do your best to enjoy every minute of both and do keep in touch by email if not by rss i am very sorry to see that you will be leaving you will certainly be missed to tell the truth however i have seriously considered whether my own blog hasn t destroyed my chances as an academic i keep looking for some reason why i didn t make it and this is after all one of the obvious possibilities i ve come to resent it a little for that and to wonder if hanging it up might not be a wise choice i guess i m more experiencing a blog fatigue a la musgrave than i am a so much life so little time crisis as you are i wish you all the best in your upcoming endeavors jason kuznicki http www positiveliberty com good luck your blog continually reminded me that i needed to set the bar higher for myself you demonstrated a quality of writing and a quality of thinking that provided an excellent model for any would be historian and from what i know from people who faced a situation similar to yours babies are better than blogs congratulations while i certainly will miss your thoughtful postings i completely understand between teaching and parenting your life is about to change in ways you can only begin to comprehend but in my experience they re wonderful amazing changes still i look forward to your return to blogging in the future until then i ll have to settle for running into you at conferences congratulations i hope you will stay around the blogosphere though and for goodness sake leave the blog up for you because otherwise it ll turn into a pornspam site and for me because i ve linked to it in blackboard er seriously let me know if i need to copy and paste the skimming post pleeeeeeaze congrats and good luck i ll miss your ongoing contributions to blogland congratulations i ll miss you too so no plans to start up a parenting blog please keep the content here and if you re so inclined to send baby photos via email to people you know would care to see such things and appropriately gush over them please do thanks everyone for all the kind words and good wishes adm and jm i am going to keep the blog up and jm i ll be sure to put you on the baby pics list paul congrats on your own imminent fatherhood and good luck scrivener no plans right now for a parenting blog although if i ever had one i would certainly take your own blog as an inspiration congratulations on your new career and impending parenthood like everyone else i ll miss reading your thoughts if you do start up another blog please let us all know best wishes congrats from japan with two kids under 3 and feeling like a first time full timer again teaching here for the year i think you are making the right decision the first 3 months with our first were a real bear of course now that she s almost 3 we think her younger sister is a piece of cake and are treasuring her pre crawling period which judging by her response to her 3 cousins all under 5 this past month is going to end too soon after the fall or maybe spring semester ends you may find your inner berube or bitch phd but if not we ll just look for your articles and books enjoy i ll miss your blog caleb mazal tov for the new arrival caleb i certainly understand your wanting to devote attention elsewher but i wanted you to know that i have been reading your blogs for some time now kari w let me know where to find you i love getting to peek into that beautiful mind of yours mom congratulations i know i m late but i wanted to say it anyway caleb i realize i m coming to your blog very late in the game but here s to hoping you ll start back again when you can you re a thoughtful good writer and i d love to hear more of your thinking hope all is well with your wife and babe recent riffs by bloggerhacks selected blogography vinyl july 2004 august 2004 september 2004 october 2004 november 2004 december 2004 january 2005 february 2005 march 2005 april 2005 may 2005 june 2005 july 2005 august 2005 september 2005 october 2005 november 2005 december 2005 january 2006 february 2006 march 2006 april 2006 may 2006 june 2006 july 2006 august 2006 i wish to be a spokesman of the doubt that the great difficulties of our time can be solved by violence wendell berry i enjoy the quietude of soliloquizing and communing with the spirit of history this spirit is brotherly akin to us in another and deeper sense than are the denizens of bush and field these exertions are like jacob s wrestling a sure gain for the wrestler himself indeed this is what matters first of all count yorck von wartenburg defenceless under the night our world in stupor lies yet dotted everywhere ironic points of light flash out wherever the just exchange their messages may i composed like them of eros and of dust beleaguered by the same negation and despair show an affirming flame w h auden from september 1 1939