Every month or two I clean up my main links page, which consists of taking a few minutes to check all the links to make sure they are still active and relevant. There’s always a few bloggers and website starters who email me asking to be listed on my links page because they have their own online space where they talk about their love of Brazil.

Unfortunately, most of those who do email me asking for such a thing are precisely those that, after about 2 or 3 months, give up without waving the proverbial white flag to their readers. This, I don’t understand. If you are a Brazil lover who takes the time out (and in some cases, seemingly a lot of time) to give yourself an online presence, then why give up so easily? In light of such occurrences, I kindly request that you bestow upon your audience a single act of good will, either commit or get off the pot.

After 2 years and 3 months, I’ve reached my 800th post. That means on average I’ve posted here 29.6 times every month. I’ve added blogs, divided them by cities then did away with them, experimented with a Portuguese-language version, a news/editorial-only version and I even made a blog about another country by following the same format as this one. More recently, I created a Portuguese-language learning blog, quit this blog for a month and I came back and switched blogging platforms.

There’s been a lot of hits and misses but the main idea has always been the same, which is to bring my knowledge to you, to learn along with you and to translate articles and ideas that can only be found in Portuguese. While I can’t exactly say “cheers to the next 800!”, I will keep at it for as long as I can and as long as I find myself inspired to write (as opposed to just learning).

Thanks for reading thus far