This is a big day in our little part of the universe. Can you guess what it is? I know one of your first guesses might be that this blog post is the 1,000th blog post of The New Forty. 1,000 days and 1,000 entries...that is pretty big considering where I started and my initial [...]
Tag: blogging
Day-in and day-out.
If you have just stumbled upon The New Forty you may not have yet realized that this is a daily blog. By that I mean that every day since my first day of blogging here on Area Voices I have created a blog post. Today marks day eight hundred and eighty-two of The New Forty. [...]
Guilty by association…
There is an operational reality that goes along with being a friend or family member of a blogger like me - eventually you are likely to become part of one or more blog posts. It is a reality that most folks around me have gotten used to over time. I do have some friends that prefer [...]
Speaking in tongues…
If you have been noting the unusual characters and figures that are scattered across my blog entries over the past few days and have concluded that I am speaking in tongues and an exorcism is required - hold the holy water. There seems to be a glitch across the system that has inserted random characters [...]
This is about you…
I hereby proclaim by the power vested in me as a human being, blogger and citizen of the universe that July 3rd shall heretofore be known as International Blog Reader Appreciation Day. You may ask as a blog reader why I selected July 3rd as opposed to one of the other 364 days of the [...]
The thoughts you take the time to share…
I love to read the comments left about my blog posts. I typically comment back to them, but with the events of the last few months I have really only had the time to read them. I want to thank all of you who take the time to not only read my posts, but to [...]
David Bowie said it best…
It has been said that the only real constant in life is change. Yesterday, Area Voices migrated all of its bloggers to a new platform and it has caused quite a stir. Many things are different and it appears some things may be lost - presently all my blog comments are missing-in-action (some bloggers report [...]
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