I just did a thing.

So. A couple years ago WordPress.com partnered up with Anchor (later taken over by Spotify) and bloggers could make audio podcasts to go with their blogs. Huh, I thought. Okay. So I started making podcast thingies for my madcapchristianscientist.com blog. It was kind of fun. At first.

And then a year ago WordPress and Spotify got a divorce, and for a while I couldn’t figure out how to get back into my Spotify account to record and manage the podcasts. I toodled around on my computer in the manner of Boomers (randomly clicked this thing and then that thing) and eventually found a backdoor into my Spotify account and recorded some more podcasts.

But… a few things: I rapidly got tired of listening to my chirpy voice pointificating on the state of the world – and I figured nobody ELSE needed to hear that, either; Spotify sent a message that things were changing again and I’d have to change my login information and get a bonafide Spotify account, rather than use my “Spotify for Podcasters” account; AND Spotify would no longer provide the recording tools – I’d have to go through some other app for that.

I got a message that I could download my recordings before things switched, but every time I tried to download the recordings my computer would crash. I tried to delete my recordings one by one – but there were pages of drafts I had to delete before I could get to the actual recordings and I started to get brain-drained.

I could envision finding myself locked out of my account and in a position where I no longer had control over my already-recorded podcasts (this is what happened with my first Youtube account).

So I just deleted my Spotify account. And I feel such a huge sense of relief about this! It feels good to simplify things for myself – to strip away some of the social trappings and focus my time and energies on more important things.

Alrighty. Just had to share. Carry on then…

(Should I make a podcast to go with this? Just kidding.) 😀

Karen Molenaar Terrell

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Although I’ve deleted my Spotify account and no longer have any podcasts through my Madcap Christian Scientist blog, I do have some other podcasts out there, though.

Here’s one through the local Unitarian Universalist fellowship that was recorded last Sunday: 
https://suuf.podbean.com/e/the-healing-power-of-love/

Here’s one through Repod-It!:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/featured-author-karen-molenaar-terrell-children-of/id1540661725?i=1000557722651

Here’s the audible version of my first Madcap Christian Scientist book, Blessings: Adventures of a Madcap Christian Scientist:
https://www.amazon.com/Blessings-Adventures-Madcap-Christian-Scientist/dp/B00DP8CWQO

Here’s one from the Christian Science Sentinel radio program:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/sentinel-audio/sentinel-radio-edition/2000/the-real-spirit-of-the-season-alive-and-well-and-right-where-you-are-program-051

And you can find an audio recording with this article in The Christian Science Journal:
https://journal.christianscience.com/issues/2023/11/141-11/no-separation-in-love