A Milestone has been past.
As I approach my second anniversary of being a blogger, I recently noticed on my little counter-thingy (yes, I still am not all that into the tech side of things) that I have recently passed the 10,000 visitors mark; and that’s in about 14 months of existence (I started this blog sometime in May 2005). I am sure that that is not much compared to many other blogs. After all, Catholic Rage Monkey, the first blog I contributed to, I think has had over 100,000 visitors, and they have only been around about a year and a half longer than my personal blog. However, I am amazed that so many people have visited. The counter-thingy allows me to go in and look at where people are from (I have no idea how that works, and it does not tell me who you are, just what country/state the server is in from which you entered the Internet). I expected most would be from NJ, or those places where I have family. After all, that was the many reason for starting this blog; so many of my out-of-state family and friends wanted to see my weekly homily that I thought a blog would be an easier way of making it available than remembering to send them all an email with it. But I know I do not have family, that I know of, in Germany but there is someone from there who visits from time to time. Some regulars seem to come from Virginia, Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, and England. I am not sure how many are “regulars” and how many just stumble onto the site in passing, but it is still amazing to me that people would read what I wrote.
I have not developed this blog as I had hoped. Originally I had planned to include reflections/summaries of various spiritual readings that I do, hoping to spark some discussion. While I have been doing the spiritual reading, I just have not done the blogging. The reason for that has be varied; of course the busyness of being a parish priest. Of course there has also been the various personal challenges that I have had since I started blogging — being diagnosed with cancer, the treatment, my father’s death, and a new assignment. I do greatly appreciate all of your support and prayers.
How about we do some howdies? If you are a “regular” just post a comment saying hello, and where you hail from. God bless you all. BTW, I’m in Trenton, NJ.
