This month marks a decade of blogging.
Chalk it up to a pinch of OCD that I’ve managed to not miss a month (even last month) without a post over the past ten years.
Your gift to me on this occasion, should you agree to, is to allow me one more post of the kind to follow.
Once, I disdained (but without so much as a whiff of snottiness, mind you) personal health-related posts on blogs. Then, it appears to me, a tsunami of them has appeared here. I apologize for those, and this one, the absolute last of its kind. Promise.
I don’t recognize myself. Stephen tells me that his understanding is that some people never ‘recover’ from anesthesia, of which I’ve had two authentic and two ‘twilight’ during the past two years.
Of course, this could be the onset of dementia, or maybe just garden-variety depression, which is enhanced by means of reading articles positing things like if you’re younger than sixty, you will witness the eventual collapse of western civilization.
Maybe it’s just that some of my cherished demons have jumped ship, and their absence is confusing me. I’m out of ideas.
I’ve treated my blogmates shabbily over the past year at least, and the siren song of abandoning this blogging enterprise is never completely out of earshot. I wish I were a natural writer like those bloggers, but writing is a pinch-of-OCD chore.
Domani Dave will endure, I suspect, but I see continued slim pickings.
Oh, by the way, blame Michael for this blog having been planted in the first place. He’ll inspire you at the start, then continue to write sumptuous blog entries making you feel inadequate. Curse him.
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October 17, 2019 at 12:56 pm
Mark Alexander
At least you’re still writing. All it seems I do these days is post memes and pictures of menz…
Maybe we’ll return to our regularly scheduled programming once the Orange Menace is removed from the White House. Or not. I’m sure the majority of us will be on such a celebratory bender afterward that there won’t be much posting going on at all.
October 17, 2019 at 1:35 pm
Dave
Been reading about that western civ collapse I mentioned for forty years, and apparently just refused to let my little mind acknowledge that I might live long enough to see things actually cascade toward it.
Pardon me, but the solution could be dragons;-)
October 17, 2019 at 4:15 pm
larrymuffin
We always enjoy your blog.
October 17, 2019 at 8:46 pm
Dave
For which I am very pleased. Always.
October 19, 2019 at 9:39 pm
Urspo
I drop by regularly hoping to see you posting. I was pleased as punch to see you have done so! I was saddened to read you are feeling down in the dumps. If writing is tedious please don’t do so; it’s one thing to endure a boring job but a boring hobby makes more sense. All the same stop comparing your insides to others’ outsides – one always comes up deficit this way. hugs.
October 22, 2019 at 1:54 pm
Dave
I appreciate very much your thoughtfulness here. It would be difficult to pull the plug on something that has become more than a ‘hobby’, though I’m unsure what to call it. ‘Pen pals’? Sincere hugs back at you.