2020 Life Logs, Day 57: Writing About Writing
Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Weather: Overcast with Drizzle; High 48 degrees, Low 42 degrees F
Location: At Home in The Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
I have been writing this blog since Tuesday, October 18, 2005. That was more than 14 years ago, some 5,241 days. The actual number of blogs posted is 4,828. The difference in the number of days and number of blogs is the result of sometimes combining the blogs from multiple days into one posting and the fact that when we flew home to visit with family during the six years of our circumnavigation, I did not write blog posts. I wish I had, as the details of those visits are not documented. And try as I can, I just don’t have the same recall of events that I didn’t write about. The reason I was focusing on this today is that tomorrow I have a Memoir Class and have been asked to talk a bit about the challenges and rewards of writing a blog over such a long period of time. The reason for taking this class was to give me the incentive to start writing stories that will eventually be incorporated into a book about sailing around the world. Given that task of answering questions about blog writing helped me focus on just how important that writing process has been in my life. It also pointed out to me that I have neglected updating the homepage of the blog for over three years. I updated the homepage just before Mark died and I have simply been unable to change it since then. But I did it today. I changed the photo from one of Mark and me to just one of me. And I wrote a new narrative explaining how the blog has gone from a travel log to a life log. Making the changes required Justin’s help. As I wrote in the narrative, the posting of my logs into the blog has always seemed like magic to me and Justin has always made that happen. I’m still not sure I fully understand the process. Today he created a video to teach me how to deal with the technical end of the blog and then we had a Skype video call where he could see what was happening on my computer. Thank you, thank you, Justin. I’m hoping that by the time I go to class tomorrow, I will have a chapter for my book on the importance of the blog in my life. Other than this focus on writing, Shadow and I ran a few errands and took a couple of long walks. I visited briefly with Shirley and Doris next door, delivering their mail from the Post Office. I took Ollie to his after-school violin lesson and then went to play Mah Jongg. I am a slow learner, but I truly enjoy my Wednesday nights playing this not-so-easy to learn game with a great group of women.
