check out my new blog at open salon:soap opera elegies and the future of serialized storytelling... 

from my first piece, never say never...

At the risk of overstating the obvious, the past couple of years have been tough ones for soap opera fans. I grew up with the Procter & Gamble shows, so chronicling the final months of Guiding Light in 2009, while exhilarating, left me emotionally spent; repeating the experience just a year later, when As the World Turns left the air, had me swearing that my five decades of watching daytime soaps had come to an end. Or so I thought at the time...