When the pioneers to Oregon left the settled territories for the West, they said they were “jumping off.” Communities like Independence and St. Joseph, Missouri, were known as “jumping off places.” It was from these last bastions of civilization that the emigrants headed into the unknown, into a land of both promise and hardship.
I feel like I’m jumping off as I launch this new website after blogging at Story & History on WordPress.com for five years. For the last year or so, I have wanted to provide readers with more information on my life, my writing, and my books than what I have included on my blog, and so I set as one of my 2017 goals to launch my own website.
So I am proud to announce the launch of this self-hosted website, Theresa Hupp, Author — https://www.theresahuppauthor.com
It has been a blessing to me to make connections with friends and readers on Story & History, and I hope subscribers to that blog will take a look at this new site and continue to follow me. I want to continue to post about “One writer’s journey through life and time”—the tagline for my blog, and my continuing mission for the website.
All my earlier posts have been moved here from Story & History. I will be working with WordPress to migrate subscribers from Story & History on WordPress.com to this site, which should happen over the next few days. I hope the transition will be seamless to you (except for the look of the new site), but I’ve never done this before, so I cannot guarantee perfection.
Of course, if you do not wish to continue on this site, feel free to unsubscribe.
When you do look through the pages on Theresa Hupp, Author, if you notice any links that aren’t working or other errors, please let me know through the “Contact Me” page. And if there is information you would like me to include on the site, please let me know that also. I want what I post to be helpful to readers, as well as a place to hang out with friends.
I have loved getting to know people through blogging. Readers of Story & History have been a kind and generous community, and I hope my connections with you continue to grow.
My thanks to those of you who have followed me on WordPress.com for the past five years . . .
And I hope you will jump off with me to Theresa Hupp, Author!
What does self-hosted website mean to you? To me it means you are supplying the computers that do the hosting. Something like the way Hilary Clinton had her email hosted on computers she owned.
Kudos on that. Where do you keep the computers? In your basement?
Perhaps you meant self-managed?
WordPress.org calls sites that use their software, rather than WordPress.com “self-hosted.” I’m just following the WordPress terminology. I don’t have any servers.
Theresa