Or Blog

To survive, you must tell stories.
—    Umberto Eco
[There is a saying that you “live” as long as you are remembered.  I wonder if blogging counts?    —    KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2015	Stretched Today?
2014	Outta Here
2013	Getting Words Right
2012	There’s A New Dog In Town
	Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is
2011	A Conservative Is…

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Sit, Put, Until…

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done.  It’s that easy, and that hard.
—    Neil Gaiman
[Found at one of the blogs I follow:  http://writersfield.wordpress.com/
The specific post is: http://writersfield.wordpress.com/2013/11/08/13-reasons-to-start-or-keep-on-writing/
—    KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2012	Lessons For My Son
2011	Reaching The Right Audience
2010	Christmas Trees and Profession of Faith

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Keep Writing Your Truths

And to you, dear WordPress land, keep writing your truths.  Because it has to count.  It has to mean something that we reach more people with our own sense of humanity, vulnerability, power and compassion.  Because here, I think, the world is starting to make sense on ‘paper’.
Found on one of the blogs I follow: http://thebambooprinciple.wordpress.com
The specific post is: http://thebambooprinciple.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/on-paper-dear-wordpress/
[Well, virtually, if not on ‘paper’.    —    KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2012	The Victor
2011	Forging Away At My Deadlines
2010	Try This With Your Shoes…

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Corollary

Definition of rock journalism:  People who can’t write, doing interviews with people who can’t think, in order to prepare articles for people who can’t read.
—    Frank Zappa
[I sometimes wonder if there might not be an internet (blogging) corollary to this observation.  Myself, included.    —    KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2012	Working Retired
2011	The Web Is Not Authoritative! (Really?)

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A Good Post

First have something to say, second say it, third stop when you have said it, and finally give it an accurate title.
—   John Shaw Billings
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