I have now completed 8 years of blogging. Phew! Whose idea was this anyway?

In that time I have posted 592 pieces of my mind (who knew I had that many?), for an average of 74 per year, while attempting to avoid redundancy and trying to augment my cerebral remnants by doing Wordl, Connections, Spelling Bee and the NYT Crossword every day, not to mention, but I will, reading the daily missives from Merriam-Webster and Word Smarts.

Over those years I have had 4006 non-subscriber visitors to the site, from 59 countries (out of 195), including the U.S. (which does not yet include Greenland), one special administrative region and one organized, unincorporated territory.

I have written 160,045 words, which sounds like a lot, but they weren’t all different, and the total is still far less than that of Moby Dick, so consider yourselves lucky.

Writer’s block is a constant concern, so I’m thinking about joining a writers’ bloc for support.

I may need to expand the focus of my work as I run out of theatrical productions, concerts, museum exhibits, author events, and Lego projects to write about. Suggestions are welcome, though not necessarily taken seriously.