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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

YOU CAN CALL ME FLOWER IF YOU WANT TO

I've never been a big blogger. My posts tend to be short, and inconsistent. I'll follow blogs, ravenously gobbling up posts the second I see them hit, for a month or so, only to drift away...and then back a few months later. Sometimes I'll surf the links of my visitors, acquainting myself with colorful and diverse lives, catching pieces of heartbreak or success.

I grew up in a small town, before the Internet became a staple. I'm not used to being connected to people across town, let alone around the world. I find that I quite like it.

Blog stats tell strange stories.

For the past two weeks, I have been googled by Canadians more than U.S.-ians.

My lovely Lithuanian followers - fourteen a week, every week for nearly a year - have gone away. Migrated, perhaps. Maybe they're just on summer break. It could be that I offended them. What did I say, Lithuanians, that you have forsaken me? *weeps*

My blog continues to be listed on some Indonesian website that appears to be related to finding jobs throughout Southeast Asia. Visitors come to peer at my posts. I feel like I should post interview tips of something to reward them for their perseverance.

Australia continues to follow strong, week after week. Rock on, my dears.

Blog responses also tell tales of my visitors. Many of you are querying and either scared stiff about the process or stubbornly trudging on. A number of you are parents, raising mad little children in mad little homes. You want to be musicians, singers, visual artists and writers. You want to get more sleep and more exercise - in that order - eat good food and watch more movies. You want to read more and write better. Good for you all.

I feel like I should do something for you all. Would you like some kind of matchmaking to introduce you to one another? A recipe swap (my best friend says this suggestion makes me old...and lame)? Maybe a contest: coffee, book and a cookie?

3 comments:

  1. Actually, I rather prefer the fun, quirky nature of your blog. Writing is a long journey, so why not post about wine and cyborgs along the way?

    But if you're offering cookies and coffee, then yeah, I'm in.

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  2. I agree with Cobra. I don't think you need to change a thing! I like your posts just the way they are. My posts are often disjointed also. I'll write about writing one day, my stepdaughter the next, the beauty of a sunset on another. It is, afterall, the journey of THIS particular writer. Which includes stories at bedtime and annoyance with my husband leaving his dirty socks on the floor in the living room and sitting on the porch looking out over the water.

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  3. Awww, totally feeling the love here, guys.

    April, those discarded socks are a scourge, a scourge I tell you!

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