[14 years ago this week, this blog was born. For this year’s anniversary series, I wanted to highlight a handful of the types of posts that have kept me blogging for nearly a decade and a half now. Leading up to some special weekend tributes!]
For some
time in the blog’s early days (and really its early years), I’d say my posts
tended to focus on the kinds of familiar topics I highlighted yesterday—sometimes
favorites, sometimes frustrations, but most of the time subjects about which I knew
a decent amount before I began planning and writing. It was really when I began
planning weekly series around a particular topic that I likewise started
creating posts—not all of them, but at least a couple in each series, let’s say—from
an initially less well-informed place, and thus needing to research before (and
while) writing. As a result, there’s absolutely no doubt that I have learned a
great deal from this blog, about an unbelievably wide variety of topics: including,
to cite just a few from my early moves into such weekly series, San
Diego, satire,
and Sendak.
I hope I’ve modeled lifelong learning as a collective goal in the process, but in
any case that goal has kept the blog fresh for its author, and thus without
question kept me going.
Next post
on posts tomorrow,
Ben
PS. Give
me a great anniversary present and say hi in comments, please!
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