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Birthday
I’ve reached the blog’s third anniversary, which I suppose brands me now as an incorrigible. As I have done before, I’ve marked the day with some redecorating. I hope you all like this new look. If you have any trouble with it, please tell me.
If you like it, then thanks go to the designer Benedikt Rieke-Benninghaus and I encourage you to give him praise.
My thanks, too, to my generous host at The Daily Troll.
I’m not big on blog stats and noticing numbers but there are currently 2,020 posts on the blog to which I’ve had 2,186 comments (and of course thousands of spam comments). I’ve had about 200,000 page views since I opened for business, and of those people about half have stayed to read a while. I find these pretty comfortable numbers for an obscure regional poet such as I.
My thanks to those of you who have been reading here from the beginning and to those who have joined along the way. My special thanks to those of you who’ve commented and kept a conversation going. I get lonely hearing only the sound of my own voice.
In a post about his blogroll yesterday (and a phenomenon called Blog Amnesty Day), Lance Mannion commented that a sidebar soon becomes invisible, and I think that is very much the case. So I have tried to streamline mine a bit. I’ve collapsed my archive into a drop-down list and reduced my reading lists at Good Reads to an icon. But I’ve kept the recent comments list because I want you all to talk to each other as well as to me.
You will find my pages now off the horizontal navigation bar up top. Please visit to find links to my books and poems and also links to information on many Kentucky writers and presses.
I read a lot of blogs in a day but I have tried to keep my own list of links — I won’t call it a blogroll because a lot of the links aren’t blogs — short, useful, and focussed on local writers and artists and other poets with whom I have a personal connection. I invite you to explore that list.
But I also echo Lance in saying that just because you’re not on my blogroll doesn’t mean that I don’t read your blog and appreciate your blogging. Most of the traffic is in links in the posts and the comments. I try to be generous in linking and sharing. I invite you, too, to leave intelligent comments with links back to your own work.
Not much point my being out here if my place is not of use in developing a community.
So here we go, into a fourth year. Tempus fugit. Good luck to us all.
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11 Comments
1. Helen Losse replies at 4th February 2008, 10:39 am :
The new look is good, but I miss “the kid.” It’s very readable; I hate the ones that aren’t. Old eyes love white. LOL
2. Tommy replies at 4th February 2008, 3:17 pm :
Whoa! Love what you’ve done with the place.
I note that the RSS button in the upper right could have come out of Vista, and probably did. The wibbly-wobbly line between reflected light and shadow is something Microsoft slathered all over their Brand! New! Operating! System! (buy buy buy!!)
3. sherry replies at 4th February 2008, 5:09 pm :
Ah Helen, I’m glad you liked my baby pic. Maybe when I get some time I can figure out a theme switcher and the kid can make a comeback.
4. Terry replies at 4th February 2008, 5:28 pm :
Happy birthday! Who would have known this hobby would be as addictive as as it is?
5. sherry replies at 4th February 2008, 6:06 pm :
Ain’t it the truth, Terry. People often ask me how I keep it up every day but I find I often have too much material. Thanks for getting me into this. And thanks for the birthday wishes.
6. Gin replies at 4th February 2008, 11:01 pm :
Love the make over. Love you.
7. sherry replies at 5th February 2008, 7:38 am :
Gin!
8. charlie w replies at 5th February 2008, 11:04 am :
Congratulations on three years. I too really like the new look. When I found your blog about two and one half years ago, I remember commenting to you that it was different, and would undoubtedly grow. It still is different and obviously has grown. The mixture of political current events and writing info of an elevated nature is very interesting, and if one is interested enough, useful too. It would seem that only the best informed find their way to the comment section. I love it. charlie
9. Georgia Green Stamper replies at 5th February 2008, 12:10 pm :
And I love the larger type font -:)
10. sherry replies at 5th February 2008, 12:20 pm :
Thank you, Charlie! And thanks for being one of my best informed commenters.
11. sherry replies at 5th February 2008, 12:22 pm :
Yeah, me too, Georgia.
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