Closing Up Shop

I started this blog in 2007, soon after moving to New York. In that process, I lost my best friend, Oso, whom I've memorialized in this space every year since then.

As I find myself moving on in both my personal and professional life, I realize this blog, shellytown, is a thing of the past. I've started a new blog, which I hope will be more effective and relevant to my current life.

But there is the matter of Os. So, I plan to enter one last memorial for him here, at the end of this month on the 6 year anniversary of his loss, and then shut shellytown down for good. It seems like the last best thing to do here.

This does not mean the tradition of writing about my friend every year will end. It just means I'll be taking it to a different place, just as I've taken him with me everywhere else I've gone since 1997, when he came into my life. (We've gone a lot of places, Os, so get ready for the next one!)

Thanks to everyone who's read this blog. Hope to see you around.

Michele

welcome

Thanks for visiting shellytown, an online space for the creative and professional writing of Michele M. Bowman. Here you'll find some personal essays in miniature form, as well as my way of dealing with the news, some examples of how I make my living, and etc.

If you have any questions, comments, criticisms or concerns, please send me an email. I like getting the emails.