You can follow Peg-O-Leg’s Ramblings, or you can turn the page.
Peg, one of my very favorite blogger buddies, hit 15,000 followers. And then she lost a couple.
We bloggers need to take care of each other.
RUN– do not walk — to Peg’s site and click “follow.” Because, really, what else do you have to do but read the very best blog on Word Press?
Me, looking grateful.
It has been 5 years almost to the day since I started a blog. Given how ephemeral these electronic flashes of word and image can be, that makes me an elder statesman. Practically a blogging Methuselah.
My first post was about dropping my youngest daughter off at college. I hadn’t figured out how to upload pictures yet and it was rather wordy. My daughter, my sister-in-law and an anonymous stranger were the only humans to read my efforts.
A couple of months later, bolstered by the fact that I was now a genuine writer, courtesy of having this blog, I got up the courage to approach the local paper about doing a little ditty in one of their occasional magazines. They took the bait. I had to pay them in the form of advertising, but still – I was published!
A couple of months after that I…
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