The Social Porcupine

On August 4th I will have been blogging for four years. This is my first post . In many ways I feel as if I have been blogging forever. Only four years??? And the more I think of it the more I'm amazed, because I've lived so much life in these last four years. It was soon after starting my blog that I first traveled away from home, alone  and during the years since I have traveled more times than I can remember, making tons of friends and learning so much about life and people In some ways I feel like the person that started this blog four years ago is a distant memory. At least outwardly. But I'm also the same. It wasn't long after starting this blog that I wrote my first opinionated piece . Since starting this blog I've wrote all my best works , finishing tons of short stories and some novels. In many ways this blog is exactly the same as when I first started it. It's still pink and green. Still random, mostly designed to share my thoughts and conne...

Wow! Thank you so much, each of you, for following, reading, and commenting!!!! My writing wouldn't be anything if it weren't for my readers. On top of that.... Everyone… have I actually written 100 posts!? How did I do that? How!!!! And most of them… Were they even worth writing? LOL It has been a really great time learning to blog... still learning :) I hope you all have enjoyed my posts. And today, for fun, I'd like you all to read over some of my old posts and tell me which one was your favorite! Which of my posts did you like best? Which one helped you, touched you, or made you laugh?  I so want to know!!! Have a great the rest of your week!!

Hey, every body!!!!!!!!!!! My blog is one year old today! :) Now, how exciting is that? Pretty awesome, if you ask me :D My blog has done pretty well for a first year (I think). I have 13 followers through blogger and more through email (I don't know how to tell how many followers I have through subscribed email). This will be my 63rd blog post and total comments are 220 - that is average 3-4 comments per post. Not too bad ;) And I've got views from all over the world :) That's pretty neat, I think :) Average views per post is 44. This last blogging year has been a lot of fun. I've learned a lot about blogging - with a cell phone - and I've had tons of fun. But there were times I was like "Why did I even start this thing?" Like when I was too busy to blog or my blog wasn't getting as much traffic as I would have liked. I had read others' blogs for about two years before starting this one. And since I sent out alot of group pictu...