This Blog Is 20 Years Old
When I started this blog, I assumed I could keep it going for a few months. I would consider it a major win if I got to two years of semi-regular posting.
By the time I got to the fifth year, I started to wonder if I could keep this thing going all the way to ten years. Ten years! A decade! How many projects reach a decade?
But now it is 20 years. 20 years, five times per week, I write something. It isn’t usually profound. Sometimes the posts are super brief. I don’t always remember a story when I look back on past posts. And many other times, we’ve used my blog to remember when something occurred. It is like a time capsule that I keep adding to over the years; a nest where I can figuratively curl up in a cozy space created out of words.
I have thought about stopping. A lot. I don’t have a date anymore in my brain where I’ll stop writing in this space; I’ve stopped thinking about the end. I may reach 25 years or 30 years. Who really knows?
Because isn’t that the point? That we can never know what the future will be? All I know is that when I started this blog, I was writing a book about infertility, and my twins were giving up their bottles. And now that book is massively out of date, and the twins are in college. I’ve changed. You’ve changed. Blogging has changed. And yet, if you’re reading this, you’re still here. And I’m still here. Thank you.
I am enormously proud of what I’ve created. And at the same time, all I have done is convince myself that it would be a good idea to sit down and get into the spirit to write by writing a blog post. I don’t always post what I write. It doesn’t always come easily. My only advice is not to think too deeply about it. If you sit down and do it, you too will one day have 20 years of blog posts.
I am grateful to everyone who has read any part of this journey. Thank you for being here. For letting me know you’ve seen my words. For letting me know that I’m not alone out here.
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What an incredible milestone, Mel! Congratulations!!! Happy 20th Blogoversary! Cool that it also happens to fall on Father’s Day and the Summer Solstice. I am grateful that you began your writing and sharing online here 20 years ago today and at our paths crossed not long after when I entered the (much smaller back then) blogosphere. I have learned so much for your words and reflections and gained so much for your community building/nurturing efforts. Write on!
I wish I could edit comments… More than a few autocorrect typos here (especially for when I meant from) and hopefully you get the gist. xoxo
Happy, happy blogoversary, Mel! ❤ What an incredible milestone, and what an amazing community you have created here. I am so grateful for you, this blog, your wisdom, your friendship and your continued inspiration. I’m glad you are proud, because you should be! 🙂
Happy blogoversary!
Congrats on 20 years! I came for the infertility support and stayed for the guinea pig and book updates 😉
Found you in my darkest moments entering into the hellscape of infertility. Over the years, this blog developed into a calm, soothing safe space to express myself and feel seen and deeply understood.
Thank you for being you, you really do make things better in the world.
20 years! I know that because I started reading not long after my almost 20 year old was born. But I also don’t think about it in those terms. Congrats on still having things to say after all this time!