Blogging for the experience, the joy of sharing something that I have had fun with or that inspired me and so it might inspire you, is the reason I started blogging in the first place. There are millions of blogs that never make it through the noise to even be read by anyone. And, if the blog is found, the post has to be short and to the point with clever videos or tutorials, or written by a famous author or celebrity. So, with all those excuses in my head, it’s easy to just let it slide to the back of my to-do list.

I suppose the 2 things that I search blogs for the most are recipes and tutorials for a skill I want to learn. I get so frustrated at recipe blogs that have so many pop-ups that I can’t even read the recipe all the way through. Unless I can’t find that recipe anywhere else, I move on.

I have purposefully not included pop-ups on my site. I am guessing if they annoy me to the point of leaving a site completely, maybe readers that relate with me, would feel the same way. I don’t know. Maybe I just don’t want pop-ups on my site.

That doesn’t mean I don’t have a viable online business or multiple streams of income. It just means I don’t use pop-ups for that. I digress.

I haven’t made a post in months, after working to launch a page to sell my dehydrated active sourdough starter. That was a fun project, only intended to share my starter with those who don’t want to spend the time and resources over several weeks, to establish their own starter. But, I did have plans of at least outlining a very simple, approachable bread that even beginners could make.

Life hit a little hard and blogging became one of the things that dropped off.

But, I have been writing almost every day, averaging 1500-3000 words every time. I’m not trying to write a bestseller or a book at all. I’m writing about my experience with caregiving for a spouse with early onset Alzheimer’s. Over the last 18 months, I didn’t feel like it had a place on my blog. However, I have changed my mind now that we are 18 months in from the diagnosis. So, I’ll be sharing some of that on my blog. Because it’s the season that I’m in, and it’s the reason, actually, that I’ve been stitching so much by hand, near the fire, so he knows where I am, even if he isn’t sure who I am sometimes.

I listened to a book in the car, and the author talked about creating for an audience of one. Since blogs aren’t read that much anymore, I am confident that that’s what I am doing and it’s really okay.

But, I can still pretend you are visiting and you are not me. ha. So, thank you. Whether you lurk or reach out on my Instagram page.

Anne