A big change is coming to this blog. After just on 21 years almost exclusively on what now is Google’s Blogger, starting Jan. 2 it will be cross-posted on Substack.
Some readers already have experienced this. Those of you who also subscribe to my Bossier Views blog on Substack know this. Since mid-2022 any post that has relevance to politics within Bossier Parish has been posted here and there.
I’m doing this because the Substack formatting is easier for viewers to access, search, and likely to read. I suspect it’s also easier for indexing and subscribing, even as the audience for Bossier politics is much smaller theoretically than for Louisiana politics, it has collected almost as many subscribers as there are followers on my Twitter feed, which posts links to each entry here as they are published. In the future, it will post links to entries at the Substack site (see the bottom of this post).
There’s another reason I’m doing this now, which is a wanted change. I have considered it since not long after Bossier Views debuted as I became facile with Substack. The delay until now is because of the very unwanted and unwelcome development of just over a month ago.
Without going in detail, my former life — for which I would trade this one at present (and I suspect future, no matter what is in store for me) without any reservations whatsoever — left me no available time to make this transition. It’s not that setting up and making the transition to Substack takes that much time but that, especially in the last couple of years, I had so little beyond by nursing/care duties and academic duties, besides trying to ensure Deshae had some kind of quality of life beyond that of a total care patient (and, with her help, combatting an enormous and continuous stream of medical and other imperatives). Sharp-eyed readers will have noted that in these last couple of years my posts overwhelmingly have come in the middle of the night and in terms of my desired production schedule increasingly irregularly because often the only time I could write or finish up was then, after which I would grab maybe five hours of interrupted sleep (to tend to Deshae) and then start it all over again.
I mention this as part of a semi-apology. In recent years as these demands on my time escalated (almost entirely as a result of the progression of Deshae’s disease) the quality of my posts became more and more uneven. Too often I wouldn’t have the time to investigate them to the level I would have desired, and some great topics I simply rejected because I knew I couldn’t do them justice. Plus, you probably can’t write at your best when you’re desperately trying not to fall asleep at your keyboard in the wee hours, after having fought falling asleep all day and succeeding until then only because you’re constantly on your feet doing things (which, on a few occasions, actually didn’t work).
Also, some of you contact me from time to time. I appreciate that and wish I could have been more attentive. I know sometimes it would take me days, even weeks, to reply. Honestly, I just didn’t have the time, or I would be exhausted in the middle of the night and just couldn’t write replies that did justice to the correspondence … night after night.
In 2026, things will be much better in that regard, if horribly worse in so many more ways for me. Thanks for your patience over these last several years, and I encourage you to check out new site, which will be at https://jeffsadow.substack.com/.
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