On 40 Trips Around the Sun and Blogging All About It...
Today marks the beginning of my 40th trip around the Sun and as such, it seems like an appropriate time to ponder the state of the blog. Yeah...I'm a blogger. And have been so for more than 14 years. I have the archives to prove it ! I started with the JoinCross Blog and then RhodesSchool and have been settled in here at "Why I oughta" on my personal domain for more than a decade. And now with more than 3,000 individual posts, I've left behind quite a bit of digital and personal brick-a-brack over the years - especially with a handful of recent one-post-per-day-every-day years. I'm on track to keep up the one-post-per-day for 2018, too. Like a lot of you guys, I've read a bunch of the 'is blogging dead' pieces like this one, but a few have stuck out and I feel are worth sharing to talk about the place of a personal blog in the face of publishing platforms like Facebook and Twitter and Instagram what-have-you. Now...I'm on Facebook a