Those of you who aren’t empty-nesters like me are just coming back to work from your winter-break, ski-or-swim vacations, so I just want to direct your attention to last week’s innovation on the CultureGrrl website—the “Donate” button, administered through PayPal, on the right.
For further explanation of the fiscal urgency of this blogger bailout, go here. I was gratified by the initial response; discouraged by a recent falling-off.
It’s going to be blogging-as-usual this week, in gratitude to those of you who have stepped up to the plate. But there are still many hundreds, if not thousands, of regular readers who seem to want me to keep doing this intensive work as a labor of love.
That’s not gonna happen. But I also won’t keep begging you like this, which I (and probably you) find distasteful. I hate giving this up: I just had my first “CultureGrrl Recognition” moment, where a stranger came up to me in a museum and said, “Are you CultureGrrl? I read you all the time!” I was at least as excited as she was.
Fair warning: If advertising (scroll down and click the box for “CultureGrrl”) and contributions don’t start making this endeavor more cost-effective, I’ll have to cut back on my cutting commentary…which some people will undoubtedly regard as a GOOD thing!