19 Years of Blogging - Anniversary - February 2023

Today marks 19 years of blogging. My very first blog post - basically a 'testing, testing' post was published on February 16, 2004 . Nineteen years feels like a really long time. Actually...it IS a really long time. Doing anything for nineteen years is a huge swath of time and covers close to half of my entire life. Next year - the 20th year - feels more significant because of the 20-year-number, but nineteen gives me a chance to really reflect on the length of time I've been at it. This past year, I continued my trend of writing one-post-per day (365 posts) and crossed my 4,000th published post back in April . Although the idea of publishing something online in your own venue has fallen out of favor since I fell in love with blogging back in the aughts, there has been a tiny little bump in interest recently as more people have thought about/taken the plunge to get back into blogging. Why? Seems a lot of the interest (or re-interest) is tied to the changes that are