octoblog

This here interweblog is eight years old. That's like 123 in blog years.

If you care to see them, here are the first posts I ever wrote, back in Seattle when I'd just turned 40 and fallen in love (a dangerous combination).

When I began writing nina turns 40, Hijo was not yet in kindergarten, my hair was more pepper than salt, and I was not at all interested in the banjo. I took pictures with an Olympus C-4040. Hijo and I rented a small room in a big house on Capitol Hill.

I wrote for many months without any response. Back in those days, comments were not automatically part of the software, you had to install a third party system,which was beyond me at the time, so I wrote for my friends and family and my new love. When I got my first email from a reader, I was over the moon. (I'm pretty sure that reader was Cowtown Patty.) I was hooked.

Thanks to everyone who checks in here; thanks to those who nag at me to blog when I haven't for too long. Thanks for commenting, thanks for your own blogging which inspires me. This is the medium which got me writing regularly, got me my first paycheck from writing, and has provided me with many friends. It's been good to me and I will always love it.

Comments

[Kelly]

what a neat thing to have. My blog will be two, soon, kind of...

Do you ever find yourself going back and re-reading old posts?

[nina]

I have some favorite posts that I like to go back and find from time to time, sure. It makes for an interesting record of my life, too.

[Colin]

It's how I met you. Wasn't there some weird coincidence that we'd both written about and posted a photo about the rainy sky on the same day? Considering you were living in Seattle and me in Nova Scotia though, maybe that's not such a weird coincidence. But it did lead to a long discussion of synchronicity, which was great fun. And a long friendship.

[nina]

It was the fog. We'd written about the fog.

[Karen]

Happy Octoblog! I can't remember which one of us found the other first, but I'm sure glad we did. :-)

[nina]

Me too, Karen! One day we shall meet in person and drink that Ribera del Duero while listening to Squeeze.

[kat]

Yay! Congratulations!

(ps - I'm writing again, at a new home!)

[jen]

That's some time blogging. I came across your blog when I first started blogging over 6 years ago and have been checking in ever since.

[arvind]

Congrats Nina!

[sylvia (aka heiresschild)]

i started my blog in 2005 and started reading you on clubmom and have followed you since. i don't get to blog or read blogs as much as i'd like to these days, but i try to get around on the holidays. i've always enjoyed reading about your life with your son and the inspiriational pieces you write about and share with your readers.