About two years ago, I started blogging. My first post, "My Welcome to Windows," was November 23, 2004.
Since then, there aren't many topics that I haven't touched. I have written about our family in posts like, "In honor of mom, the grand lady of Pine Street." It's been a lot of fun doing restaurant reviews like, "Goobers, another backroads restaurant" and "Dining along the coast, Riverside Steak & Seafood."
I've also done some humorous pieces like the "The dangerous pillowfication of America," Then there have been serious pieces like "The Menhaden saga and limits to growth," and "North Carolina, Competition or a Partner."
Certainly technology has been a big part of my writing. Posts like "The Breezy Badger comes to the rescue," have been a staple of View from the mountain, while posts like "So what was the best part about being at Apple," have been the mainstay of Applepeels.
My business experience has led me to write some management posts like "Integrity In Management." Some of my favorite posts have been recipes like "Time For Clam Chowder" or movie reviews such as "Cars- A great movie." Once in a while someone has gotten under my skin and got a tough post like "High tech car, low tech dealer" or "Repudiating our founding ideas."
I also haven't been shy about dispensing advice in posts like "Some Advice To My Kids." I have had posts that have been controversial like many of the ones at Applepeels. The pressure at Applepeels has not stopped me from creating feel good ones such as "The freedom to be interdependent." There have fortunately been only a couple posts that interested few people other than me and a number which have been read by thousands of people around the world.
I enjoyed more than anything else writing the travel articles like, "Swansboro, NC Travel Guide" and "A Summer Excursion Through New Brunswick, PEI, & Nova Scotia." Now if I could just figure out how to get paid for doing that.
I have no fixed list of topics as I plan what to write for the next posts. As usual I will write about what interests me and hope that it finds a receptive audience. A love of writing as a craft is what keeps me going. I don't think I'll be stopping anytime soon.
Yet with nine hundred ninety posts at View from the Mountain and Applepeels, I'm looking forward to passing the one thousand post milestone before November. Actually if I wanted to get technical about it, I'm already over one thousand posts if you count the ones that I have done at Radio, Blogger, Bubbler, Dot Mac, and Live Journal where I've explored other blogging software.
Later today I hope to do a couple more posts, so let the countdown to one thousand begin. After doing 990 posts, the next ten should be very easy.
