Hello?
It has been quite a few years since I’ve made a post. I knew you all would still be out there brewing, talking about and drinking good coffee so I went and checked on the situation.
I fired up Instagram, talked to some coffee friends, and read some coffee articles.
Wow…
Things have changed a bit since I last wrote about coffee.
Where Have I Been?
I started Brewing Coffee Manually a few months after my son was born. (He turns 12 in June). My boy was my second child and his arrival coincided with household coffee consumption increasing dramatically. It was also at a time in my life where I felt like writing and creating something. I was already very interested in manual coffee brewing processes and seemed to be discussing it with friends constantly. A coffee blog is where I ended up.
Over the years, I had a lot of fun running the blog. I liked researching, writing and taking pictures of coffee apparatuses. I liked meeting people and talking about coffee. Some really cool people reached out and introduced themselves to me, some even sent me coffee and gear. The coffee scene developed and changed around me and I enjoyed and rode the wave. Then life got a little wild.
My wife and I welcomed two more daughters to our family. We remodeled our house, built an addition and then moved. We then remodeled the new house. Work got busy. Life got busy. I had to set some things to the side and I gave up writing about coffee.
Right around the time I decided to put my coffee adventures on the back burner, my blog started gaining a little traction. I was getting more visitors than ever and I didn’t have the capacity to contribute to it. I also didn’t have the heart to shut it down.
I tried to revive it once or twice when I got a little margin, but the margin did not last long. I also had a few other hobbies and interests sneak in and vie for my attention. Eventually, I left the coffee blog to gather dust on the shelf and moved on to other things.
I haven’t posted or written a thing about coffee in five years.
Still…
Every couple weeks someone will ask me my opinion about something coffee related or want to discuss some coffee topics.
Every November it is time to pay my hosting and website fees.
Every time I reached a decision point for the blog, I can not bring myself to scuttle it all and let it sink into the abyss of things internet past.
This year I had finally resolved to let it die on its November anniversary. A couple weeks ago a changed my mind.
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