History of Savor the SW online
A number of us have been writing about using Southwest plants for food since long before the electronic age. In early September 2013, I purchased the domain name for this site after a discussion with Carolyn Niethammer about forming a partnership to increase our readership and thus decrease the amount of work each of us had to do. (The idea was to have 4 folks and each of us do one week a month.) While non-techie me was trying to get the site set up, hosted, etc. Carolyn started on a free blogger site. I have been taught to respect my elders, so I "went along to get along." As time went by and we had get togethers, I kept urging the group to switch to the hosted site so we could sell our books and art. I also tried to train them to reduce image size to load faster, improve SEO, etc. Through the years I paid for the .com domain name and had it hosted and maintained a static page sending people to our free blogger site. In 2018, I started building the .com site so we could sell our books and products. In a meeting where we sat and discussed the topic I convinced the others we could make it happen, that I could shift the site to the .com. I went home to make it so and was dismayed to discover that I could no longer log into the free site. I am greatly saddened by this break in what I believed to be a friendly and mutually beneficial working relationship. I do hope this note clarifies some questions people have about why there is now two sites with similar names. I remain entirely willing to have the writers who are currently on the free site to publish on the .com site and to offer their art and books for sale as well. Whether they choose to is entirely up to them. Peace,
Dr. Jacqueline Soule, Editor
