17 Years of Blogging
If my blog were a person, they would be nearing the age of adulthood. Tomorrow begins their final year of childhood as they make their way through 365 days to their 18th birthday. It is my 17th blogoversary.
Any time I think about not writing, I think about how I have this account of what I was thinking and feeling and going through for the majority of their life. It’s over 5000 posts and 84,000 comments, and we often scroll back through random months to find old stories.
I am grateful to have the record. I think more and more often about stopping this site or slowing down the pace. Though I also know that slowing down the pace is the first step in stopping altogether. And I love having this record. I love being able to look back and re-read old stories. It’s the push and pull of wanting and not wanting to stop. Both at the same time.
Thank you for reading the blog — either for a long or a short time, for one post or over 5,000.
11 comments
Happy blogoversary! I love reading your blog.
Thank you for sharing your stories with us.
Happy Blogoversary!
Happy Blogversary! Your continuity is so appreciated.
Happy Blogoversary! I am so grateful that you have been blogging here and building community here for all this time. I found connections through reading here that really helped me when I simultaneously became a mom and joined the disability community (having a daughter with Down syndrome)
Happy, happy blogoversary, Mel! 17 years is quite a milestone! and I love that your blog has grown up along with your kids (and all of us! lol). Thank you, thank you for holding space at the centre of this community for all of us and bringing us all together. You are a treasure.
Seventeen years is a major accomplishment! Congratulations!
I love that you can refer back and reread old posts. Such a great record of your life.
You’re an inspiration too! I’m really not sure how you are able to keep up the pace. I’ve slowed down my posting in recent years, to really only once a week (twice if I count both blogs). Though my readership (or commenters at least) have dropped off – perhaps that’s the result of, or maybe is the reason for, not posting quite as often. I can’t figure it out. lol
For me at least, you’re a key part of my online friends and community, and if you stopped posting, you would be severely missed!
So glad you’re here, Mel! Congratulations on your blog anniversary. I was so happy to discover your humor and heart during the pandemic.
I think I found your blog 9 years ago. From the bottom of my healing heart, thank you endlessly.
I love having this record too! Thanks for putting all the work in for 17(!) years!
Happy anniversary! Thank you for creating an amazing community, for finding all sorts of intriguing things on the internet, for sharing your journey. It’s a beautiful record.
Happy blogoversary!
I have been reading you for 14 years.
Thank you for blogging and still being here.