One Year Ago I Started This Blog

Exactly one year ago, I was pushed by many reasons to do what I've always loved to do - to write and share my positive thoughts, humor, real life and fictional stories with other people via the Internet and this blog.  Exactly one year ago I sat in a hotel room out of state and started a story of what it was like to be a traveling sports parent.  Certain events drove me to stop fiddling around with my desire to write after a few failed attempts at screenwriting and manuscript writing in years past.  Some real life events just pushed me emotionally to just stop wasting time and to get on with doing what I like to do.

12 months and well over 12,000 plus pageviews, plus 5 additional blogs later - I must say that this has been a fun and very rewarding experience.  I have been able to share smiles, laughs, fictional drama, retrospective memories as well as some thought provoking discussions.

When I started this blog I had no idea that a major hurricane striking my area would push me to some thought inspiring writings on what our society might be facing to when we lose one of the most simplest natural commodities - oil.

When I started this blog, I had no idea Google would continuously prompt and push their products and dare me to switch this blog over to their  Google Plus format - just so that myself and other writers could stimulate their new product.  I am a hold out.  I like this Google blogging format just fine.  So I balked at changing from this format.  I believed that with fresh ideas and challenging storylines - that this format was more suitable to people around the world and outside of the Google Plus format.

When I started this blog, I had no idea that one long time friend and a recent friend would get offended by my efforts to resource items, photographs to help push my writing.  Whatever the case, right or wrong, they decided to end a friendship.  Turned out to be just fine because others friends stepped in on multiple levels and helped me transform my  ideas into a reality right from the ground up.  They donated their time, resources, pictures, ideas - whatever I needed, and that they could give.  They did not judge me.  They waited to see what I would do with what they gave me.  THANK YOU!  That idea growth model then lead to similar approaches to other stories and ideas that I introduced in this blog.  With 12,000 pageviews and private feedback from people from around the country and around the world.  So in spite of the loss of friendships - I've gained so much, much more.  I found out who my real friends are.  I know who I can trust and who is willing to help push me to another level.

Their appreciation and commentary for the finished product is priceless.

When I started this blog, I had no idea that one of my other blogs:  WhereDidOurLoveGo.blogspot.com would go from a meager 120 pageviews in nearly four months to over 600 pageviews in just two and 1/2 months after I interacted with a fascinating new friend in the Netherlands.  Her thoughts on life, way of life and free energy inspired me to take my own emotional constraints off and fly free with my writings on love.  From that day on - my pageviews on that blog soared.  She knows who she is, and I thank her a million times over!

Not that my friend in the Netherlands, or close friends, work friends, neighbors who've helped me this year should be forgotten or overlooked.  Nor can I forget a friend I made along the way down in FL, who I promised I'd send her my first company t -shirt when I get it started.  I'm sorry darling, I haven't registered just yet, but I won't forget you.  I keep my promises to all my supporters.  One other friend who's name I'll just mention is Steve.  Steve, you know who you are - thanks for your support these last 12 months.  Printing up my fictional stories and making them into your own personal book is exactly the point I have been trying to make!

All of that being said, I feel like the glass is definitely only half filled.  There is more that I wanted to do within the last 12 months, but couldn't get to just yet.  More life stories, more fictional stories, more writings in some of the other blogs.  Some days and mostly nights, I would sit at my laptop or desktop and simply be so drained from my regular life, that I didn't even know how I got through the last thing that I wrote.  But it doesn't matter.  When I do get to putting something out and I see the pageviews go up and up, it's instant acknowledgement that all of you out there are getting it.

It would be nice to turn a profit in all of this and help pay some of my life bills.  But even if that never happens...all of you now and any future readers of my work...the 12,000 plus views (and growing) is a blessing.  It's a momentary fraction of time that we are connecting, in spirit, across many, many miles.  There simply is no way to put a price tag finding ways to connect with dozens, hundreds, thousands of people on a single positive thought.  It is truly, truly priceless.

Recently, I found out that a coworker at my workplace has cancer and hasn't been given very long to live.  He's a really wonderful guy, with one of the most positive outlooks on life.  I hope that he can beat the odds.  I will do what I can to help him.  He's situation is a sobering reminder that we all will be leaving this life eventually.  The last thing I wanted to do was to leave this life without having shared some of my positive thoughts, ideas and life stories with other people.  The responses from all of you out there who continuously read this and my other blogs...tells me that I am accomplishing my life goal.  Thank you!