Notes on 10 Years of Blogging

I started blogging ten years ago this summer. Some of you may have been readers back then. My blog was originally called “The Search,” after a Walker Percy quote and the idea of going deeper than Google searching and searching not for searching's sake, but for the sake of inching toward truth. 

The blogging volume ebbed and flowed over the years, and in 2015 I transitioned “The Search” to the admittedly less interesting brettmccracken.com. 

As utilitarian and burdensome as they sometimes feel,...