Blogyngitis

It seems to be going around lately. My blog & the blogs I read religiously all have this hollow sound when you walk around in an empty room. We were all blogging nearly every day. Now? Some of us write maybe once a month. And so my big question is: What has happened to us? Why aren’t we blogging anymore? Did Facebook have something to do with this?

I can’t answer for anyone else out there. I do know, for me, well life is generally pretty quiet. Once Theresa went off to school and Stephen went off to Rome, no one was around to make fun of me. No one was around for me to make fun of. I got used to the quiet and I guess that quiet extended to here, as well.

When I started this blog, it wasn’t because I expected anyone would be interested in my life. It was first & most importantly, an exercise in writing. It forced me to sit down and write. And I did. Nearly every single day for over a year. But, like any good comedian, I needed an audience. It was like – there is this little spark of a funny idea in me but then, give me applause. Tell me how funny I am. Then, wham! It’s like throwing logs into the fire.

I don’t know. Maybe, as interest in my blog died, so did my interest in writing the thing. Or maybe I just ran out of funny stories. Or maybe my life just got real boring.

I have no answers. I have none for myself, much less for those bloggers who also seem so quiet lately. I’m just pondering.

Maybe I need to get back to basics. Just write every day, even if it’s just nonsense. Or maybe I need to start looking around me again and discovering the humor that I seem to have misplaced.

Stay tuned. Either this blog will get interesting again. Or it won’t.