Saturday in the Park

I’ve just passed my actual birthday, and I’m in between two very important dates to me. So at sunset on a beautiful day in the park nearest my home, it’s time for some reflection. For five years, I’ve filled this blog with stories, ideas, pictures, limericks, and whatever else has come into my head at

Five Years and Counting

I wanted to start a blog for a long time–probably for at least a year–before I actually did it. But I put off doing it, because I thought there was some special quality I was lacking. Others who “blogged” (the word was still new and unusual back then) had it, whatever it was, and I

Year 6, begin!

  I started writing this blog in the summer of 2011, which means this is my sixth year of putting words and pictures here for posterity to look at some day. In 2015, my blog was viewed in 82 countries, and on every continent except Antarctica. The number of viewers has never interested me very

you made blogging look easy

Every comment I get on this site needs to be moderated by me before it goes live. And more than a few comments (but by no means all of them) obviously come from people who didn’t read the post they’re commenting on. These comments always include a link to something, where undoubtedly I would receive

44 score

It’s late at night, and I should be trying to sleep, but updating my spreadsheet of blog posts has taken up a bit of my time. And it’s made me realize that this is the 880th post on this blog, in the 20+ months since I started this blog. Through whatever’s been going on in

A word count milestone

Early in the process of creating and maintaining this blog, I made a decision to keep tabs on how much writing I actually did. I started keeping an Excel file, and every time a new post is added here I record four things: The number of the post, the date it was first published, the

Quarterly Report #4

Picture from The Greenville, SC Blog How quickly the time flies! This report, in keeping with the tradition I established after beginning this blog a year ago, is meant to take stock in what I’ve done, and where I see things heading in the months ahead. First things first. The blog celebrated its first year

Now do it four more times

Back in late October of 2011, after an exciting baseball post season where I couldn’t write and post things fast enough to this blog, I made reference to reaching 100,000 words written in this space. After creating this blog last summer, I started to keep an Excel spreadsheet of all my posts and their word