a milestone, a miracle ~ how did this happen?

Today is my 7,000 post on commano. Impossible, since 2005. How do I do this and why? I have learned that the secret, for me, is to write every single day and not to worry about punctuation or if I give too much detail or not enough. This blog is really for me and I use it often as a reference tool to look up the name of restaurants or books/movies/plays. I don't dwell in the past, but it is right here at my fingertips if I need it. By now my loyal readers know that there are days when I am stuck or I have the blues or I just do NOT want to post ~ so here comes the poetry. Here is my very first post and I do need to thank Blogspot for always being free and available, and to you dear friends who read and comment here or in other ways. I am filled with gratitude today.

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

beginning the blog

Just a short note to start and a quick thank you
to Martha in my writing group for sort of suggesting
the title. Well, she laughed at this line in my
email yesterday, and that's all the encouragement
I needed. And thanks to Will in the writing group
for always adding commas to almost everything I write.
I appreciate it, really I do.

what I learned on the bus

 I can't get Ken the car out of the garage due to street mess, so I took Lyft to meet Ken the person at Starbelly, a fave restaurant of mine. After we celebrated his birthday, I walked and bussed home and on the way I made a discovery. This blog sends me an email (and some readers have signed up for this feature) and when I opened it on my iPhone I could muck around and enlarge the photos. What next?

the oldest blog in America?

 Yesterday a friend called from Oregon and I was trying to remember when we had the wonderful trip on Amtrak to Portland and then our drive to/fro Bend to visit Mickey and June. That was back in 2008, and the fastest way I could determime when this occcured was to type BEND in on the locator on this very blog. I started this habit back in 2005, and have more than 6,000 posts. When I miss a day (rare) I hear from one of my readers. Do not think that I have a lot of loyal followers, I don't, but I appreciate each and every one of you. But honestly, I do this for me and not just as a reference tool, I need to highlight my quiet little life. I like to remember that the placement of a comma is not important to my writing and if I add one too many, or forget one, my post is a-ok just the way it is. Plus, comma, I really need to express a lot of gratitude. I am such a fortunate woman. And blogger.

well worth reading

Our friend Karen is a writer and was one of Jane's best friends. She
used to live here and now she lives and works in New York.
She has a new blog called POPCORN which I adore. Karen is a
fabulous writer and she is writing everyday so there is this nice
flow and continuity.

She and Randy have formed Tiapos East. Yes!

POPCORN ~ check it out.

a temporary new blog to follow

Our friend Eric is traveling now and he always writes a fascinating blog
when he's on the road. Spottywest Goes East ~ enjoy!

reliving last year

The 2015 blog has been printed and we are both enjoying the posts,
photos and memories. Man, we are such fortunate people to live
here in health ~ especially reading about all the snow elsewhere recently.
And today, sunshine and I'm off to meet Dancing Jen for lunch. Hoooooray!

2014 - now in print

front cover - author and her Husbando at Kokkari

back cover - Paris, but you guessed that

Really, the new year doesn't officially start until Blogspot sends my
printed blog. Sorry about the flash on the River Seine. 2014 was
a very good year and it's fun to review the whole thing in living color.

Tony loves our city

I have another delightful blog to share with you:

An Englishman's Love Affair with San Francisco
https://tonyquarrington.wordpress.com/author/tonyqsf2805/page/3/

This is also linked over there on the right, just in case the above
is less than perfect. Tony especially loves Bernal Heights and to see
all these familiar sights through his eyes means so much. He
feels about SF the way some of us feel about Paris, Rome or
London. And he is a fine writer - enjoy!