Sometimes I’ll read a blog post I wrote and then note at the bottom the links to similar posts, and I’ll click on one and read the post and then pick another link at the bottom and click on that and read and so on and so on…and time moves on and the next thing you know I’ve spent an hour or more back in time remembering.
Such a thing happened to me today, and eventually I wound up in 2014 celebrating my 1500th blog post. I read that relatively short entry and thought how much life has changed from 2014, but how much my life is the same today too.
I enjoy blogging because it connects me to all of you, plus I have an excuse to take pictures. But I also like that it’s a history of my life. I’ve often wondered when we did something, or what happened during a particular trip, and all I have to do is go check the blog.
I guess it’s something of a public diary.
Anyway, today I checked to see how many blog posts I’ve written, but I can’t find that statistic. Seems there’s much more about how many people are clicking on your blog than anything about what you’ve done. I’m sure it’s in there somewhere. But if I had 1500 posts in 2014 I imagine the number is double that now.
Regardless…it sure was fun bopping around in the past. You should try it on your own blogs. I think you’ll end up smiling at the memories you have stored there.
PS: The images here are random things I shot on my camping trip. They didn’t make it into a blog post, but I thought they deserved to be seen.
Change Is Hard 
June 24, 2021 at 8:00 am
Always fun to go back and look at old blog posts. I do the same thing with my blog, I don’t write there very much anymore, but it’s still my trip log and I find myself looking at it and wondering when we were in a certain place.
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June 25, 2021 at 8:56 am
Lots of good memories contained in an old blog. I don’t know how long I will keep it going and sometimes I think I should print out the best posts for safekeeping. One of the topics in library school was how hard it was to maintain collections when you’re going digital. Machines that read the data change and eventually aren’t supported or able to be repaired. Paper, if you can keep it from getting wet or burning, is always readable by someone.
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June 24, 2021 at 8:29 am
Great points! It’s something I have never done. Too busy going onward, ho. 😉 But looking back is also very beneficial. Often seeing where you’ve been gives you illumination on where you’re going.
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June 25, 2021 at 8:57 am
I bet you’d smile is you randomly picked a month and a day and read one of your own posts.
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June 24, 2021 at 12:48 pm
I like glancing back at old blog posts, too. I sometimes repeat myself unintentionally and that makes me smile. I just wrote about looking forward to my 1,000th post. But 1500 blog posts in 2014? Wow. Very cool.
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June 25, 2021 at 8:57 am
I am continually surprised at topics that I’ve covered. I have no memory, sometimes, of writing the piece at all.
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June 24, 2021 at 1:19 pm
I was just recently thinking about how my blog has evolved over the years. In the beginning there were no photos, and I was on a different platform than WordPress. Then I moved to WordPress, and my blog became photo-oriented – back when I walked the dogs and found things to take photos of. Now, it’s very hit or miss, with few photos, probably because I no longer walk my dog, no longer have my bird window, no longer have an actual camera because my last camera just decided it was done now, thank you, and I haven’t replaced it because I have this phone with this camera . . . You make me think maybe I should get a camera, maybe I should get out more, maybe – I’ll think about it. In the meantime, I’ll enjoy your posts and your photos.
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June 25, 2021 at 8:58 am
Yes, you’re in a new location, there should be lots of things to share with us!
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June 24, 2021 at 7:41 pm
I’ve been down that rabbit hole too, poking around past blog posts to find a picture… an hour later, I’ve relived an entire trip out west. Sure beats the old vacation slideshows form the 70s!
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June 25, 2021 at 8:58 am
Good memories, right? That trip out west with Cole. 🙂
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June 25, 2021 at 12:37 am
Me too, I do the same thing, and my blog is only a little over 4 years old with 298 posts so far, but still … ah the memories. 🙂
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June 25, 2021 at 8:59 am
Yea, the memories are so sweet, most of the time, sometimes sad, but always good to remember.
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June 25, 2021 at 12:40 pm
Periodically, I re-read some of my early blog posts, too., Some are cringe-worthy; others make me smile; still others send me running for a box of tissues! Nice way to spend a few hours though, if you can — and I love your random photos here, especially the deer!!
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July 2, 2021 at 1:08 pm
I thought she was beautiful too. Sometimes when I’m randomly going back in time I’m surprised that I wrote a particular post. Most of the time I remember the times and places that inspired the post. It’s a nice way to jog my memory.
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June 25, 2021 at 3:48 pm
Oooh, nice photos. Yep, you caught me and I followed some links back into your past. I do the same in mine, sometimes: I go looking for a specific piece of info and then I read the blog and I wonder about this that or the other and there I am, clicking links and transporting through time. Thanks for this post!
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June 25, 2021 at 3:56 pm
My wordpress site (which I abandoned while attempting to transfer posts from Blogger) has a statistics link for it, which shows total posts–
https://wordpress.com/stats/insights/tajmutthall.wordpress.com
(I don’t know that you can see mine, but at least you know the link format)
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June 25, 2021 at 6:15 pm
And, so– you inspired me again.
https://dogblog.finchester.org/2021/06/i-count-3030.html
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July 2, 2021 at 1:08 pm
Very cool.
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June 26, 2021 at 12:33 am
I look up stuff on my blog all the time. Forgetful sometimes:) Congratulation on so many posts, i enjoy coming here to read:)
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July 2, 2021 at 1:09 pm
Thank you. I love reading your daily notes too. You are amazing with all the crafts and projects you tackle!
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June 26, 2021 at 7:28 am
That river shot is amazing!
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July 2, 2021 at 1:09 pm
Thank you!
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June 26, 2021 at 9:46 am
I agree – our posts are a kind of public diary. It’s been interesting to me to go back and look through my pictures, too. It just chronicles where I was and what I was doing/thinking in times past. A lovely post, Dawn.
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July 2, 2021 at 1:10 pm
Thank you. I use it to refresh my memory all the time.
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