A Simple Space

Ten years.  It’s time

A Simple Space began as a sidebar to a Wordpress blog I rambled on for several years.  The first post was March 21, 2007, ten years ago today.  The side project eventually became the larger project, and then the only project when the Wordpress blog ended after 8 years.  

As the name implies, A Simple Space was meant to be simple - a minimalistic theme without bells and whistles, with simple quotes, photos, and oddities that piqued my interest, and no attempt to monetize the site with ads or links.  I found things to post via RSS feeds and didn’t even follow other tumblr blogs until the last few years.   

Simple Space has sometimes been more work than I wanted, certainly more than originally intended.  tumblr becomes an addiction, more so  when you’re looking for things to post or reblog.  It’s Facebook with dirty pictures and anonymous followers.  It becomes a fall back when you should be doing other things, a time suck, and I’ve had to take a few breaks to mentally reboot.

I had always planned to end this blog on its anniversary, and nearly ended it a couple of years ago.  But the 10th year is a good mark to do so, don’t you think?   Ten years is a good run, a nice even number with which to bow out and find something else to do.  Of course, looking at beautiful women will *always*  be a favorite thing!

But it’s time to move on.  

The Simple Space archives will remain.  Maybe an occasional new item will pop up now and again to keep it active, who knows.  What I don’t want is  someone using the name for something less than what I’ve put together for the last 10 years.  Oh, I know it’s vanity ;)  I know myself well enough for that.  

But Simple Space is mine – in previous incarnations, in the current form, and in the immediate future.  

And so, Simple Space followers and wanderers who happen to tumble by …..   

I wish you all well.