Seven years ago I sat in my living room in Falkirk, Scotland, and began to rant about politics. I had just discovered the point of blogs, and how they made reading journal entries linear and didn’t require clicking on each page separately. What a revelation! I was hooked from the first moment I logged into my Blogger account.
Now here I am seven years later, still screaming into the wind.
There have been times I thought I would shut the blog down. Lately I’ve been thinking about putting it up for sale. Yet time and again I keep returning. I can’t stay away.
Most of my dedication comes from the readers; the people who have commented here, clicked my links, bought books through my Amazon, clicked on my ads, fêted me and debated me, donated in tough times, partied with me in good times… I love you all. You’ve been with me through some of the most gruesome parts of my life, circumstances my “real” friends fled from in horror, and have cheered up me along the way.
Am I going to be at this another seven years? Highly unlikely. Technology changes and I might be off doing something else. But I’ll always be around.
Happy blogoversary, Wendy!
I think I’m just about as “old” in blog years, if you count my efforts at hosted.wordpress.com and all that. But PLEASE don’t sell your blog. Let’s organize a big trade!
I’m bored with mine as well. I think a bunch of us should just trade blogs and start writing about something we know nothing about. It would really give us all a renewed interest and motivation, and make our readers sit up and take notice.
Plus, I’m sure your audience would rather hear about farting PUGS than farting Chihuahuas.
Dick, you may be on to something. What an interesting experiment that would be!
RG
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Is 7 blog years the equivalent of 1 human year or 49 human years. I can neve keep it straight. Happy anniversary.
Please do not stay away. It is hard to believe that it has been that long, though. Of course, my blog is six years old and I was reading yours before I started. Keep it up.
Who else will be able to supply the sordid details of the CPAC underground party scene, those highly anticipated photos, and of course, the dog. Happy Anniversary!
Eeh- we all get the blues sometime. Maybe there is something better out there in cyberland. If so, it will come in due time, the important thing is to get the maximum joy you can out of now. We only get one pass at life, I hope you continue to make yourself available as a blogger, but don’t take things so seriously that you lose the fun. There’s too many jerks out there to poke fun at, to ever really consider rejoining the mundane world.
I will keep reading you always. Keep up the good work. And have you seen the online newspaper articles from the Dominican republic about the Canadian who was killed there ?
So what did you do werong to be interred at Falkirk?
Now here I am seven years later, still screaming into the wind.There have been times I thought I would shut the blog down. Lately I