From Dates to Tweets

For the past few weeks I've been writing the blog mostly in Wordland, which is awesome. I'll still keep doing that (such as right now). But I'm hitting the pause button on combining a day's postings under title that's a date.

I went with dates-as-headlines because it most closely resembled the way I wrote on my original blog, which is archived here. Note that most of the posts under each date were short, kind of like a tweet. Each also had a short snarky headline that worked as the punchline for the post. (A trick I learned form Esquire's Dubious Achievement Awards, which, alas, are all paywalled).  For example, Further proof of life after birth was the headline of my last post before I turned 60.

I sorta replicated that approach here by putting a boldfaced one-liner at the start of each post under a date headline. That worked for readers (meaning it looked good), but a problem showed up when I looked back through posts in my WordPress dashboard: All I could see were dates. I couldn't see the leading lines (sub-headlines of a sort) of each post under the date headline, because those sub-headlines were buried in text. I needed clues in the form of posts' headlines.

So now I'm leaving the dateline up to WordPress and writing headlines anew for each short post.