Why I'm Ending This Blog

In order to explain the demise of Bitterroot Mama, I'd like to turn to three Christian music artists for a little help (and to date my coming-of-age to the 1990s, when music was music and life seemed simpler, though much more vague).

"Lines of My Earth" by the now defunct Sixpence None the Richer:

"And we in the habit of saying the same things all over again,
For the money we shall make.
This is the last song [blog post] that I'll write
'Til you tell me otherwise.
And it's because I just don't feel it."

Is it just me or are lots of blogs out there just mouthpieces for small or large corporations? It takes time to keep up a blog (how I know!) and bloggers want to be compensated with money or credit or samples or cool giveaways, but it seems that too many blogs are just propaganda. I guess I'm not willing to go that far. (Or I'm really good at hiding from the PR people, one or the other.)

"Adding to the Noise" by Switchfoot (whom I met one time after a concert and lived near the town where I spent my formative musical years. Confession to Switchfoot: I said I'd never wash my hands after shaking yours after that concert but I did. Do you know how many pieces of raw meat I've touched since then? Good. I knew you'd understand.): 

"If we're adding to the noise
turn off this song
If we're adding to the noise
turn off your stereo, radio, video ohh..."

Are you ever distracted by the internet? Say, checking your email 25 times a day or following over 50 blogs because they follow you and you just HAVE to follow them back? Oh wait. Maybe that's me. As much as I enjoy writing on this blog and following certain blogs (you know who you are), it's too much of a time commitment. Instead of becoming a hyper-networked gal, I glory in the fact that I don't have a Facebook account, I've never Twittered, I'm not LinkedIn, and I don't even know how Farmville works. I'm not using that whole living in Montana thing as an excuse not to get started on these online networks...actually I am.

"Seize the Day" by Carolyn Arends, an under-appreciated musical artist and author from Canada:

"Seize the day, seize whatever you can
'Cause life slips away just like hourglass sand...."

"You can do what you will with the days you are given
I'm trying to spend mine on the business of living."

By living, I mean spending more time with my family, actually weeding my garden, trying out new recipes, enjoying friendships, playing the piano, exercising, reading books (you know I can't resist!), and writing for markets that actually pay.


I hope you can now have a few more minutes of your day to do something meaningful. If you want to know how I'm doing (or are dying to know how quickly I'm killing my garden), just give me a call (if we're buds like that) or drop me an email. I'd be happy to talk with you. Or lip-sync old school DC Talk songs with you -- because that's still really, really cool.