This will be my L=A=S=T blog of 2017. The last one of S+E+V+E+N+T+Y blogs I wrote this year. I can't believe it! I want to thank YOU, all my faithful readers, for reading my blogs. I started blogging, in the first year of my separation. I remember hitting 10,000 pages read, then the milestone of 20,000 pages read, which I reached when I was in Costa Rica. My blog about Marr's Sweet Syrup lip gloss, which I posted on their website, garnered over 800 views alone. That tells me OODLES of people love their products, and NOT JUST ME!
I am now well over 30,000 page views. So, I GUESS as long as someone is reading, I will keep writing. There is no point in writing if no one reads what you wrote. I have always loved writing. I would rather write than talk. My students don't believe me when I tell them that.:)
It is interesting to note which blogs generate the most reads, and which, the least. Blogs about children and the elderly, are less read, than blogs about my misadventures. :) I wonder why that is? Perhaps because we enjoy other people's foibles and misfortunes, especially when they are usually ridiculously stupid and funny, which MINE often are? Or is it also because we feel a connection; we can identify with what the writer is experiencing?
My second last blog of the year, was about holiday stress. I CAN NOT believe that not a soul took me to task for saying MEN don't do anything to get ready for Christmas. Well, just one man did, informing me very nicely that he has cooked more than one turkey. :)
I have mellowed a lot since that blog. Christmas is over. :) Life isn't always a rosy ride. Sometimes we get into a funk, or we get down, or we are grouchy, or we just have to "WALLOW IN THE MURK", as one thoughtful friend told me. I think it is QUITE alright to express those feelings now and then. When I do blog about something I have done, it isn't in the least because I want to be praised. My mother raised us saying, "Sois muet quand tu as donné, et parle quand tu as reçu." "Be silent when you are the giver, and speak up when you are the recipient." I have always tried to live by that maxim. The reason my point is made, one hundred percent of the time, is to MAKE others aware of what is going on - whether the issue be homelessness, poverty, child neglect, or apathy.
On that somewhat somber, final note, I want to wish you, all my readers, a joyous New Year full of ALL the BEST things in life, which ALL happen to be free; good health, love, family, friendship, laughter, smiles, hugs, kisses and good memories.
BONNE ET HEUREUSE ANNÉE!
So nicely written Lovely Lady and so true. Again, you have such a marvelous way with the written word.
ReplyDeleteIt is such fun to read your blogs. As I told you before, SOMEONE, put you in my path for a reason and I consider it a privileged and a joy to have you in Roger and I's life. May 2018 be the best for you. It is possibly your final year of working in the school system. May you blog amply about your days among these wonderful children. They certainly brighten your life. You'll have to be a literacy angel after that to keep in touch with some of them.
ReplyDeleteMerci ma bonne amie. The universe unfolded as it should, so we could meet! The honour is all mine. Je vous aime BEN gros! XxOo
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