Dropped Blog Sites

A History of Past Links

Here are some sites to which I no longer link. Nearly all of these were of some to very high quality, and my reasons for dropping them are as quixotic as I am. Some of them I ceased to enjoy or to fully understand. Only one or two just plain pissed me off. At least a couple dumped me (a good lesson for me). One of them dumped their whole blogroll—I never knew why—and I reciprocated with a surgical excision. I've seen other blogs shed their blogrolls and have never yet heard the reasoning behind any of them. They were dodging something, I guess—too much effort to update, maybe.

Other reasons I quit linking to the sites on this list were that some ceased to publish new posts, while others ceased to publish very often. Some blogs were even deleted from Blogger—oh, stab my heart!—by the blog author. I dropped a few blogs because, even after a good amount of time had passed, they never showed any interest in me, my comments in their blog, or in reciprocating my link to them. A few were a little like the "popular kid in school"—everybody wanted to be their new best friend and their schedule was too busy. Fortunately, I never linked to more than 3 or 4 of those popular kids. Anyway, though I admit to being oversensitive, I don't try to get even if I find I've linked to a "superstar blogger" without realizing it, but I do usually have to Get Out! Here, approximately, is my past year's list of disconnected, but certainly not disconsolate, links:

1) being jennifer garrett
2) Birding Babylon
3) Blindfold Blog (deleted)
4) bored housewife
5) grave digger (abandoned)
6) Her Life Goes On (abandoned)
7) Iraq calling
8) Legal Fiction
9) Life as a Carrot
10) Living in Egypt
11) mental refuse (abandoned)
12) my forum to bore the world
13) My Obsession (abandoned)
14) My World is Interesting (abandoned)
15) Real Live Preacher
16) Rumblings
17) Rumblings Under Oscar's Porch
18) Sitting in the Window of My Soul
19) Southern Musings
20) Sugarmama
21) The Harlem Spitoon
22) the wrong side of the bed

If any of these were your favorites, you know what you can do—link to them directly, silly rabbit! Look it up for yourselves, however.

There have been some other blogs that I spent time reading and then dropped. But since I had never linked to them, I've left them out of this list altogether. After all, how many people can I afford to insult all at once? There is such a thing as being run out of town on a rail.

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