It’s Time to Move Forward

My dear Pink Ribbon Readers, the time has come for me to share some news to share with you — news I’m sorry to deliver and comes with very mixed feelings on my behalf.

As some of you many know, I’ve been blogging about breast cancer for two years now, though I’ve only been here at the Pink Ribbon Review since last April. I’ve loved empowering women with information about breast cancer — and informing them about products and services that raise breast cancer awareness.

As a freelance writer, I’ve been able to manage my time so that I had room for blogging. Sometimes I was good at it, sometimes I wasn’t, but in the end, I struck a pretty good balance. For two years, blogging about breast cancer was critically important to me and my freelance lifestyle allowed me to immerse myself in all things pink.

But now, new contracts have come out for everyone on the b5media network and they take effect on November 1st. In the last few weeks I had to come to a decision (during October of all months!) as to whether I’d be able to commit to this blog under new contractual terms.

My decision was ultimately no, I could not, primarily because at the same time the new contracts came out, there were other opportunities for me as a freelancer that would take the back seat if I were to continue to spend my writing time blogging for this network.

As survivors need to make deliberate choices about how we spend our time, don’t we? That is what this is … a deliberate choice to move on due to circumstances that unfolded before me that I needed to respond to at the same time other opportunities were presenting themselves to me.

I wanted to wait until the BCAM giveaway was over to finish what I’d started for BCAM. I had to post tonight, however, because after midnight, I don’t have a contract and won’t have permission to log in to my administrative panel!

I have promised to work closely with whoever takes over the writing here. If all goes well, I’ll even write a guest post or two for her in the upcoming weeks, when the need arises and the muse strikes.

Meanwhile, you can always visit my website, www.karenmlynch.com, to read what I’m up to. There’s a link on that site for you to send me an email if you’d like to stay in touch; I’d love to hear from you.

But until then … take care and God bless.