All Good Things Must End

Hello dear friends and family of The Artist Formerly Known as Sara.

I wanted to let you know of some important changes that are going on over the next couple of months.  You are all aware that since Sara passed I appropriated, without prior permission, her blog as a place to connect with you all and share what grief I needed to, and I thank you all for the opportunity.  Still, the blog is overall her opus, and it should be preserved as such.   In addition I am paying Typepad fees I'd rather not be paying them for. 

I considered exporting the web site, and importing into a locally hosted WordPress blog, but it is notoriously difficult to export pages from TypePad in a way that preserves the functions and features of a blog.  The more I thought about it the more I realized that I don't need to preserve her work as a blog, but that preserving her work as static pages would work just as well, but it would be much cheaper and easier. 

So, I have begun to do just this.  I have made complete complete copies of her blog and website already.  Over the next two months I will send her sister copies of all Sara's digital work, rehosting the blog pages somewhere else, possibly through her website and shut this blog down.  You will still be able to find her words, pictures and recipes but all interactive items (i.e. comments) will no longer work. 

I am open to suggestions and ideas, so if you have any, please let me know.   After I send her sister CD ROM copies to be the off site backups I will continue to move forward. 

So, if you have any ideas, May is the month to share them!

Comments

[MsAmpuTeeHee]

Hello :-)
I'm a TOTAL dork when it comes to anything tech, but I would like to say thanks so much for putting in the time to find a way to keep her posts up. It's a great thing to have all of her diverse sides represented, to be sure...but as an amputee, I have to tell you, Sarah figured out things and explained them in ways that were invaluably helpful to me. Man, if there were only some way to retrieve some of her forum posts on LadyAmp where she dealt with issues like bunched up underpants and sockets LOL. Oy. Anyhow, I am certain that her tutorials about things like how to walk up or down hills will prove helpful to anyone in the future doing that kind of search, and I really do appreciate your making the effort to leave us a way to have access to that.
Much love~ bonnie from CA

[Neil Slater]

Unfortunately, good things seem to end sooner than bad things, don't they? I have no real ideas for the blog, sir, but I do want to thank you for helping Sara as much as you did. As I help my own wife through her chemotherapy, I think of you and Sara for a little bit of my inspiration.

I salute you both!

Sincerely,
Neil Slater

[Lynn Ballou]

Thank you so much, Erik, for keeping this open for us for this past year or so. With much love, and gratitude, Lynn

[Shelley Taylor]

I found this blog when doing research for a screenplay, where there is a little boy who becomes an amputee. I was doing research on how ballet can be helpful in training new amputees because my screenplay has a character taken largely from my son, who was a ballet dancer, but who died 2 years ago. So I write, mostly to help me pass the time until I feel less grief.

So when I found this blog, it was through a link and I didn't realize at first that the original author had died. I loved the hopefulness in the posts. And now that I know the new owner of this blog was left behind, I want to encourage you to keep it going however you can. That is what I do to honor my son, who too was an incredible artist and writer.

It is an amazing legacy that Sara left behind that I could find it today and find it supportive and helpful.

[Ben]

Hi
Let me put it simple. No matter what this blog needs to be UP! Please Please do it.I wish I could help.
I have read these posts for quite some time. Key word for this blog is hopefulness. This is not what I can find everywhere these days!

Thanks

[Erik]

Typepad has generously offered to keep this blog up for free in perpetuity. Until this changes I don't have a problem with keeping it up here.

Erik

[High Tea Utrecht]

That's very kind of them. I hope they will keep it up for a while longer!