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My Blog’s 10th Anniversary

By Mary | by Mary

An anniversary blew past me recently. On November 11, 2024, this blog quietly (so quietly that it was unbeknownst to me!) celebrated its 10th anniversary. I have been blogging for 18 years, since September 8, 2006, when I started my first blog, called Filter & Splice, on Blogger. I love that each blog post is dated, and I can easily find the first post on each blog using the archive feature. On October 23, 2007,…

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Thoughts on Blogging in 2021

By Mary | by Mary

I am creeping up on my 15th blog anniversary, come September 8, 2021. Fourteen-plus years! I can’t believe it’s been that long or that I’d still be in love with this format after all this time. (Here’s where I started.) Periodically over these years I’ve done a bit of naval gazing about the topic of blogging, usually triggered by something I’ve read. Such is the case with this post. I recently read a great blog…

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