Closing Out an Email Account

I set it up for my mom many years ago. I got my mom an iPad very early on. Even though she was in her eighties, she embraced the new technology after an initial hesitation. We used it for almost daily communications and that meant I had to set up an email account for her. Now that she has been gone for almost two years, I decided it was time to close the account. Every once in a while I would receive a notice that someone tried to log in to that account. So I researched about what it means to close out email accounts and how it might or might not affect my accounts. After studying about it a few months ago and then again last week, it was time to do the unthinkable. Luckily I still have most of the email communications up to the very end. I still have a hard time reading cards and letters my mom sent over the years. The pandemic has made it more difficult to adjust to life without her - since our normal routines and diversions have all been disrupted. In the end I’m so glad we had the chance to share as much as we did. The one thing that keeps me in line is that I know everyone else has gone through losing their parents. I think the holidays make is most difficult. So when I sent a test message to see if I disabled the account correctly, the return email said the email address was no longer available. Sad. 

LIT Digital Art Tumblr encouragement

I write this daily blog on blogger comparing life in Milwaukee to living here in DC. It's been going on for four years. I don't miss a day and am constantly on the lookout for photos, ideas, and events to share - even when we are on travel. Mobile technology has made it all the more easier. So to add to the mix, I started a blog on Tumblr specific to my digital art. I link this blogger blog to Tumblr because i am too lazy to rewrite it, then mix it up with DC photos, share a custom pet portrait to two, add a video of a sketch to portrait, and insert images of other people's blogs that I find appealing. This sort of thing takes a considerable amount of time if you are really serious about it. What I found interesting are the frequent email updates Tumblr sends that inform you of benchmarks that were reached...after the initial welcome, the achievements of reaching 25, 50, 100, etc likes or posts or whatevers. This site seems to be the most difficult to attract followers to even though I have been giving it a lot of attention. Maybe that is why they try to be so encouraging. I can say that the site itself makes everything look really nice. But it is hard to complete with all the known entities out there. I suppose as long as I enjoy doing it I will keep it up, even though the end result may not be what I had hoped for.