My Blogging World

I must admit that blogging has become a very big part of my world since I first began it in December of last year.  The first time I checked into the "statistics",  I was simply bummed at the results.   Now I check regularly and am completely fascinated.  It is not the number of readers, so much, but the places from which they come.    If in fact what it reports is true,  I send greetings to those readers in Luxembourg, China, Netherlands, Ecuador, Ukraine, and so forth.   It is surely a mystery how any of those folks could end up on my blog.  Even my daughter says she has trouble finding it!

I also used the print option and recently converted my blog to a printed book.  Originally, I wanted to give a couple of blog-to-print as gifts, but the whole thing, in vivid color, was more expensive than I anticipated.   So I got one for me, and a black and white version to give to a dear old friend, who hopefully will be able to read it. She is in rehab at the moment.  The printed version of the blog is a real treasure with photographs of important family events during the past year, as well as a record of thoughts and feelings, hopes and dreams.  It is a vastly improved written journal, from anything I could have done in some other format.

Gerry also has a "geezer" blog.  It is primarily about skiing, during the season, and about "geezer-hood" the rest of the year.  It provides a great conversation point between us.  "Did you read my blog today?"  "What did you think?"  "Interesting blog!"  .....and so forth.   Occasionally we even discover something about the other we may not have known before.

So, all in all, the writer in me,  and the retired person in me,  is grateful for my blogging!   I am especially happy to have readers,  family and friends, and folks from far away places.  Thanks for being a part of my world!