Several weekends ago was my eleven year blogiversary: it’s been eleven years and just over a week since I posted my first blog entry on December 27, 2003. Each year around my blogiversary, I take a chance to review the previous year’s posts, choosing my favorite ones and otherwise taking stock of the year that was.
So, here are my top ten favorite posts from the past year:
In February, J and I said goodbye to our thirteen-year-old yellow Lab, MAD, whom I memorialized in “That good night.”
In March, J and I visited a makeshift memorial to Lieutenant Edward J. Walsh and Firefighter Michael R. Kennedy, two Boston firefighters who died while fighting a fire in Boston’s Back Bay, an experience I described in “A thousand hands and eyes.”
In April, J and I joined a million other cheering spectators along the route of the Boston Marathon, as I chronicled in “Taking back the Marathon.”
In May, friends and I went to see an exhibit of colorful quilts at the Museum of Fine Arts, which I described in “Make your bed.”
In July, J and I toured the Charles W. Morgan while she was docked in Boston Harbor, as described in “A whale of a tale.”
In “Solitude,” I explained one of the reasons I enjoy writing in my journal.
In August, I memorialized Robin Wiliams with a post called “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.”
In September, I considered my religious devotion to the act of writing in a post titled “Like prayer.”
In “A modest proposal,” I offered my take on the student riots that marred this year’s Keene Pumpkin Festival.
And in “King hickory,” I described a quintessential October stroll.
Whenever I review a year’s worth of blog posts, I’m always surprised at how much I manage to post given how little time I have to devote to writing. Here’s hoping that pattern continues for another year.
Jan 6, 2015 at 7:24 pm
ELEVEN YEARS OF BLOGGING!!! You were certainly an early adopter – bravo!
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Jan 6, 2015 at 8:02 pm
Congratulations, Lorianne! I am so impressed by the way you kept blogging all these years. Such an impressive body of work you have here! I am about to let my dormant blog go die a peaceful death and recede into the sea of bits and bytes. We all started about the same time, but I kept dropping in and out, trying to find the “perfect” way to do it, which was my downfall.
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Jan 6, 2015 at 9:52 pm
Congratulations on having been on the journey for 11 years. Keep at it!
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Jan 6, 2015 at 10:08 pm
Happy Blogday! Congrats on another year of thoughtful posts, and wishing you an inspiring new year.
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Jan 7, 2015 at 3:32 am
A very belated Happy Blogiversary to you!
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Jan 7, 2015 at 7:46 am
Congratulations on your blogiversary! 11 years is impressive indeed, happy new year!
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Jan 7, 2015 at 9:57 am
Eleven years is pretty amazing! I love the photos with this post. It IS fun to look back and see what occupied your thoughts at any given time…
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Jan 7, 2015 at 7:43 pm
for your interest and as an example of a changing world, you got a thread on the notorious reddit zen ! :o)
a blog is one extreme where you basically have a friendly sympathetic audience, reddit zen is another where everyman and his aggressive hubris is an equal ! :o)
the history of zen is not benign, there’s a possibility that bodhidharma was executed at heyin and huike appears to have been poisoned or executed as well and I was just reading up on the constant warfare of a bit after dogen’s death, rather like chess really, everyone resigns when they lose by committing harakiri, saves messy massacres I guess ! :o)
dogen in some respects had a bit of a charmed life being an extremely well placed by birth member of the most powerful and functional clan in koyoto (the minamoto)
anyway, what I am saying is taking a public position in zen is a rougher and potentially more dangerous road than the comfort of a suburban life might indicate !
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