I started this blog back in 2007. I haven’t been celebrating my blogiversaries lately, but this year, in April, was my 15th. The fact that I still write posts, however sporadically, after fifteen years is impressive. Most people don’t keep up their blogs even a fraction of that time, sadly. I don’t know which is worse: a blog that starts out with a few really strong posts and then just stops, or a middling blog that goes on for a few years and then just stops. Either way, the stopping is the problem. It’s human nature to wish for anything that is good, or even just familiar, to go on forever and ever.
So I’m proud of myself for keeping the blog alive all these years, always coming back, keeping it on life support. But, the blog is not free, and once again I find myself wondering if I’m really getting my money’s worth out of it. This year year has been particularly lean in terms of posts. Maybe blogging just isn’t my thing anymore.
Well, as they say, use it or lose it. My blog hosting auto-renewed at the end of October, which means I’m paid up through next October whether I blog or not. So I’m going to make a deal with myself now. Life support is not the same as living–commit to the blog by writing at least a post per week (not a big ask), or let it go.