Dear blog,

This is how much I love you.

Rae.

“Erika,

I had an entire email drafted out that I would finish after going through the paperwork, signing everything, and sending it all back to you. Going through the papers, though, I realized that this is not the direction I want theNotice going in quite yet. As much as I adore the TotalBeauty network and all the blogs in it, filling out paperwork in order to blog feels too unnatural and calculated for me.

So, thank you again for all of your time, but I won’t be joining TotalBeauty. I love blogging, but more than anything, I love the freedom of it – and I feel that having to sign things and agree to doing certain things takes that away from me, if only a little.

All the best,
Rae.”