International Blog Delurking Week 2026
It may or may not be International Blog Delurking Week. The first full week of January (January 4 – 10, 2026) is when we’re supposed to slither out of the reading closet and check in with an “I’m here” comment. Barely anyone does this anymore. In the olden days, people would pop out of the woodwork. Nowadays, not so much.
So let’s see what happens this year.
So welcome to International Blog Delurking Week. I make a badge every year to mark the occasion, giving you full permission to right-click and grab it for your own.
My reward for remembering to do this (when I could have just as easily forgotten) is that you have to delurk for this worldwide holiday, which is super serious and important. Right?
It is relatively easy. Leave a comment in the comment section below, admitting that you’re here. You can raise your hand and meekly acknowledge that you’re here with a simple, one-word “here” comment; or you can proudly raise your hand and tell us all a bit about yourself (my preferred method); or you can tell me the last good book you read (see, I’m trying to make it easy for you by even providing a comment prompt). The point is that I want to know about the people who read me since there is a huge discrepancy between the number of readers in actuality and the number of readers I actually know are reading. Or a tongue-twister like that.
And that’s all you have to do to celebrate.
So (clears throat to nudge you along), who is here?
4 comments
Still here!
Hiiiii it’s me! Not really a lurker, but less overtly present lately. I am reading a book right now that I heard about on a podcast called “The Year Without A Summer” about the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1816 and how it totally screwed up weather patterns (to the point of feet of snow clear into June) and harvests and was the timeframe where Mary Shelley wrote “Frankenstein” while in gloomy Switzerland. Not a quick read at all, but fascinating!
Here! Late 😂 I just read a YA book: you, me and the end of the world. It was pretty good, but not knock your socks off. I also watched Pluribus on apple tv at the same time. Different apocalyptic senerios. I’m dying to talk to someone about pluribus….someone tell me if you watched it!
Oh no, I missed this! But you know I’m not really lurking. I was just otherwise engaged. I’m not going anywhere though. After years of blogging, what can I say about me that you don’t already know?
I’m home again, and it’s windy again, so I’m a bit grumpy. I have a SIL who says the best part of travelling is coming home. No, it isn’t! lol