Today’s Post
Bifurcate In The Road post s have been photography and deciding what camera to purchase. I photographed the bicycle race and ended up with this blog being featured in the Sacramento Bee. Unfortunately the photos were not included because they needed room for a big pic of a UFO or something. But it was exciting just the same to see my blog in the paper! The post with the most hits in one day this blog as ever had happened because I attended a photowalk and a couple of my photos were linked to here (even if kmilyun is spelled wrong). The power of links!
Then there was the motorcycle. Here is what I thought about my first HOG meeting (and a bit at the end about Arco arena – bye bye kings). And of course the bye bye motorcycle post.
Fishing! I still love to go Bass fishing but the heat usually gets to me. We do get out once in awhile with either Brandon or our friend Ronny. Fishing is about friends and family and lots of worms sometimes. Then there are the boats. Rubber and aluminum. I still have the fishing boat but I need to replace the water pump propeller so I can cough- cough sale it 🙁 . I now own too many bass poles and have enough lures and plastic worms that I pass them out to friends. The plastics not the lures (you can never have a big enough selection).
I have gone off on tangents about computers, beans, puzzles, dogs, bicycling, well lots of things. This blog really has no point, no one set subject matter, it has always been post about whatever floats into my pee sized brain mind. Perhaps a blog with no clear cut purpose. Having a clear cut purpose is the rage nowdays. With social media taking a forefront if a blog does not have ONE major purpose/theme it gets lost in the land of google hits.
Here is the most popular post – the post with most hits everyday – HERE.
Well if you have browsed the posts let me know which one is your favorite post ?
I don’t have themes or set agendas on my blog, either. I write because it gives me a purpose. If no one reads it, so be it. If no one comments, oh well. I do enjoy reading and commenting on blogs, whether MS related or not. You gots to do what you gots to do, and if you don’t enjoy the blogosphere, then maybe a break would help. But please come back…
I, for one, enjoy your posts — even if I get confused sometimes. So know that I’m reading, but maybe not always commenting.
Peace,
Muff
Just reevaluating and in a introspective space right now.
I am glad you read the blog – i enjoy reading yours also.
i just do not always comment. I really should comment more on the blogs I read because that is what makes blogging fun.
I get confused all the time when reading others blogs. I doubt myself and think if I leave a comment and I missed the point of the post I will look silly.
I probably am “over estimating my nuisance value” LOL
Your blog is quite the record of the profound changes in your life since its beginning.
So about your musings of purpose, are you thinking that your blog will fade away if you don’t define / refine your niche? Or that you should do that? Or is this just a personal what the heck am I doing anyway and is it working for me kind of thing?
I go through the introspection of why am I doing this as well. Some people have such a clear purpose — often those who have a promotional / raising awareness purpose. I keep meaning to veer away from medical issues but, dang, that’s where my life is at right now. I also see folks who have huge followings and few commenters. I’d rather have a few blogger buddies if you will. Although I often think I should get around to having my blog listed and linked more. But I just can’t seem to get around to it. I know that some of my posts I’m working on the art of storytelling. Others, well…
One favorite post? Get out. I hate choosing that kind of stuff. However, I have to say I did like both of the HOG posts for different reasons — the first was funny and the second was sad and touching. Your bike video, not the one linked, but the one with past footage to music really got me.
Just the what the heck why am I doing this thing.
I go back and forth with the do I want more readers? comment’s? I think I enjoy comments more than high readership. It just really bugged me that the top post was one on a model 🙁
Don’t really know why it just did LOL.
What I know is: I do not want a promotional-awareness-informational blog.
Believe it or not it is hard for me to do the first person writing. All my schooling required more technical (for lack of better explanation) writing and it was beaten into my brain that the use of passive or possessive form was a bad thing. Sometimes I read what I typed and go oh no – to many i, I, I’s! But then again this blog is the only all me thing going on.
I enjoy my few loyal commenters more than they may ever know.
and I did not use that video post because it gets to me too and I made the dang thing.
Keep commenting and I will keep reading your blog Arranging Shoes
Yeah sometimes I’ll notice that I have three paragraphs in a row starting with “I” and I’ll have to change things around. But it is all about me right? 😉 Oh, and the Jakester.
I have a very small readership. It mostly started from the Carnival of MS Bloggers back when I was flying under the “atypical MS” label. When that diagnosis started getting getting questioned more, I asked Lisa to remove me. I think part of the reason I haven’t done more to get my blog out there is the niche question. I too really appreciate my blogger pals who comment — a lot.
Yet, I do read a fair amount of blogs and don’t comment. Usually for three reasons. Some seem like such tight cliques that when I do comment I feel self-conscious or intrusive — a bit of a awkward high school flashback. Others publish so often that I can’t keep up — I tend to get overwhelmed by daily blogs. And, then in general, a whole lot of brain energy goes into formulating my thoughts into something understandable. Sometimes I’m too wonked to do that or just need to limit my computer time. So I read.
But there’s two blogs for which I’ll always have a comment — one is yours.
Go Jakester!!
So we read and wonder if we read what we think we read.
We are sent back to the high school clique of locker rooms past.
Brain over load occurs.
Well that really does cover most reservations to commenting LOL
I used to try and follow more blogs and have cut my list of daily reads way down. I actually have a method for doing so but it might be construed wrong by some.
And I also have a few blogs that I always try and leave a comment on and but of course yours is one of em.
See we have our own little :”clique” going hahahhahha ….
i love your blog! no niche required!
i have no niche… i just write about what’s going on… the MS thing came for me about a year into blogging…. i went off in that direction for a while, and sometimes still get caught up in it….for me blogging is about writing and i love to do that… and it’s a record of my life that maybe one day my grandgirls would enjoy looking at….
i don’t comment as much as i should… sometimes i just don’t know what to say that would contribute… other times i have the energy to read but my mind just doesn’t formulate responses well… but i am here reading and love reading and will continue reading!
i hope you decide to keep on keeping on!
cheers!
Perception (real or not) of ability to formulate a coherent response . …
Yeah I do that – either to dang brain drained to put together one or I wonder if I read the post correctly in the first place.
I have even gotten a few responses where I could not decided if my post was not clear or if the commenter was not. Augh, the days of second guessing ones cognitive abilities.
I like your blog, and read it every time you publish a post. I read many blogs in a day, and natter on in my own blog, so sometimes I have time to comment and other times I don’t.
For me, blogging has to be fun, if it stops being fun, then I will stop blogging. I don’t really have an agenda or a niche, I just blather on 🙂
Sometimes it is fun and at other times it is not that I find it un-fun but a drain on the brain.
Glad you read and I enjoy your blog also although I too do not always comment.
Seems many of us do not have an niche – whew – seriously was wondering if I was the only one. I can see by the comments here that I am in good company.
🙂
A blog needs to have a purpose? A niche?
Crap! I must be doing it all wrong! I started out thinking I’d document the adventure of applying for SSDI benefits. That was good for three weeks of fascinating blog post material. Since then, I’ve been blathering on about pretty much whatever came into my head. I love it when people comment, but if they don’t, that’s OK. I wouldn’t read it, either.
But I always read yours. I never know what the heck you’re going to write about. I love that part! Do I really have to pick a favorite?
Well I am thinking that I blog about whatever happens to be pinging around in my head.
Maybe that can be our niche – typing on about whatever zaps into our heads?
I enjoy your whippet posts a lot but I could never pick a favorite post of your either. So, no you do not have to pick a favorite LOL
I appreciate comments also.