Think of it as the ending of one of your favorite tv shows - Seinfeld, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Friends. We'll only be in reruns now, just like them.
The Grapevine will be 15 years old in May, and we've been publishing every day, showing up on your device and inboxes, but I think it has run its course. That's a long time to pump out daily articles and news stories. There are 15,000 posts, here, I guess that's an average of 1,000 stories a year! A few years back, we published 7 to 10 stories a day, 7 days a week! But people weren't seeing all of them, so I pared it down to a few.
The last day will be Tuesday, February 18 because I would like to publish photos and reports from the Coconut Grove Arts Festival and St. Stephen's Art Show which are the previous weekend.
If you fear you may get withdrawal symptoms, not to worry, I will keep the Social Media accounts going where I can post things like art festivals and restaurants, pictures and things like that, after all, aren't these social media platforms the blogs of today?
Instagram is here: instagram.com/coconutgrovegrapevine/
Facebook is here: facebook.com/coconutgrovegrapevine/
Twitter is here: twitter.com/grovegrapevine
All the archives are here from May 8, 2005 - a time capsule of the last 15 years in Coconut Grove. If you're on a tablet or computer, it's to the left, see that drop down menu? If you're on a cell phone reading this, I'm not sure if you can see the drop down menu.
I have another blog called Tomversation which I have been publishing for a few years now where I write about my travels, arts, culture, history, personal stuff, things like that. I sometimes write about local events, like the Gifford Lane Art Stroll for instance, which is in March, I'll probably take pictures and post it on Tomversation.
You can read the Tomversation blog here: tomversation.com, if you subscribe, it will appear in your email just like the Grapevine does now. I don't usually publish daily, but maybe I will if I don't have the Grapevine deadlines weighting on me every day.
I also had plans to restart my Tomversation comic panel, but now out of the blue, one of the Comic Strip syndicates contacted me, they like another comic strip that I have been tinkering with and may want to publish that daily, so maybe I'll end up doing that. I'll post a link and updates at the Tomversation blog when the time comes if you're interested in that.
I'll be around in one form or another, you'll see me around town and published in other places (Tomversation, Medium, the Huff Post, The Herald) or maybe any place you might invite me to publish a guest article or post).
Thank you for dropping in daily.
