500,000 Unique Visitors!

Sometime before midnight on January 31st, my blog crossed a threshold that I’ve been waiting for a long time to see.A Splintered Mind has hit 500,000 unique visitors. Considering the blog just had it’s twelfth birthday on January 2nd, this seems a fitting month to achieve such a milestone.Thank you, one and all, for your support over the past twelve years. I’ve grown so much as a person and as a writer. In fact, we’ve come so far together since the days years ago when I would blog about my wet socks, and you could leave comments —back before my blog template became damaged beyond repair. Maybe that’s a bad example. My socks are still a water magnet. It’s so irritating. I change them almost twice a day. I just stepped in a puddle a few minutes ago. Why was water waiting to lovingly soak my socks in that particular corner? How did the water get there? Why didn’t anybody else step in it? And why am I talking about wet socks, anyway? I didn’t startblogging about wet socks until my blog was nine months old. I started this blog whining about my bad luck with electronics, which stuns me to think that half a million people later I’m still writing about it. What were we talking about again?Personal growth! Yes, I feel blessed to have shared this journey with you, even with competition from Facebook, Twitter, and Netflix. I’m lucky that I still have readers, to be honest. Those that have stayed have put up with my meandering...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Goodreads Spinning Source Type: blogs