My new blog is open!

 http://jillresearching.blogspot.com/

Looking backwards and forwards

After 491 posts, I'm closing this blog. This was not my intention when I was unable to post from Saint Petersburg -- in fact I have the script for several posts in my notebook and folders on my desktop with photos -- plus a story about almost having my PIN number and ATM card stolen and being REALLY frightened -- but then, somehow, I was never able to bring myself to post from Gothenburg and Helsinki, or even when back in Connecticut, where I have been for almost a week. Yesterday I realized the reason. The purpose of this blog was to document and reflect on my process of becoming "re-designed". And now that has happened. I am a different person professionally than when I left Sacred Heart University. My field is "design mangagement" and my institutional base is the University of Gothenburg, I'm respected by the dean, accepted as a working member of the reserach group by my colleagues, and friends with other people in the city. I haven't abandoned my former close colleagues, but my academic orientation is different.

So there is no need for this blog; it was never intended to be just a travelogue, which is what I felt it had become.

I will start a new blog sometime in the not too distant future when I have uncovered a new reason for blogging. And I'll post a link to the new blog on this site for anyone who would like to follow me there.

Thank you for your support and comments. 'Bye!