My 700th Blog: Another chapter in a Journey

[The usual metaphor for a journey. Photo is mine.]

The life in which nothing happens goes the fastest, because it has no landmarks.

~~Katherine Tynan

The last time I reached a milestone, my 600th post, was on Feb. 3, 2023 (at 9:17 PM). Looking back, I have been writing about 100 every several years…it’s been fairly consistent, surprisingly. My first attempt at writing blogs was July 2012. At the time I wasn’t sure what a ‘blog’ was. I’m not sure I know too much more, 13 years later.

I’ve averaged one or more posts per month since 2012. How did I ever maintain such a rate?

That’s a good question. I don’t have an answer.

Usually when I reach a milestone, I recap for you all the truly strange things I’ve tried to do. The different styles, different tones (from the whimsical to the serious).

This will be a departure from the past. Oh, don’t worry, dear readers, I’m not ready to stop posting just yet. I have more things to say.

Do I count the ‘likes’? Of course. I care about whether or not anyone out there is reading my thoughts. I care in the same way a fly-fishing person casts the weighted lure into the morning mist of some Limestone bottomed stream outside of Carlisle, PA. Into the mist it disappears, but is there a bite, a nibble? The angler hopes so. I, as a writer, certainly hopes so.

I hope that the people I love, love reading my thoughts. And, it’s quite a satisfying feeling to look at my stats and find that I have found someone reading my material in over 125 different countries around the world. People I will never never have a chance to meet. But I see that they have read my piece and took the nano-second to click on a button that relays that fact to my laptop.

I’m writing this in a haunted Guest House in my hometown of Owego, NY. I lived a significant part of my life in a house at the other end of Front Street. Now, I have to pay to walk the streets that once were my very own.

I will be choosing a new Theme in the coming months. That’s the appearance of the post. I liked my old one but it’s no longer supported by WordPress. And I never did like writing on a black background. I want to re-affirm one fact that may not have been on anyone’s mind when I started out writing blogs…I will never deceive you and use AI without warning you first. All my errors are mine. I still think for myself.

I will be writing about more serious and timely topics. The times demand it.

And, finally, I want to thank those of you who have told me that you read me and enjoy the material.

My wife, Mariam, has been my major editor. Thank you, m’dear.

My son, Brian and my daughter, Erin…love you both more than the distance from the earth to the moon.

And, thanks to anyone who is my fan, someone I will never meet..thanks for finding me in your Google search and thinking, hey, that’s sounds like something I might want to read.

Keep reading….