It’s anniversary time! I always thought that I started here on January 1, 2005 but when I went back to look at the first post it turns out that I didn’t publish the first post until January 9.

I had started blogging on a free site called tblog a year before then moved to self hosting. I had no idea what that meant. That’s why the url doesn’t match the name and all that bad stuff. LOL. It was a simpler time back when we were stupid about that stuff.

Since 2005 I’ve:

  • Changed husbands
  • Moved cities
  • Been horseless – Spirit, who the URL is named after, died in 2008 and my other horse Prize left in 2012.
  • Lived with a few dogs and cats but only two birds
  • Broken a pelvis (Thanks Prize) and had one other surgery
  • Been on lots of trips but not nearly enough

I always say that when I started writing it was because I was married at that time to a person who talked nonstop. If I wanted to voice my opinion on anything I needed to write it down because he wasn’t going to stop talking long enough to listen to it. When I started blogging, I wrote mostly about my life. Over time that changed mostly because of my stepdaughter. She had a lot of mental health and behavioral issues. I didn’t want to write anything that might someday be used against me in a court of law.

(Sadly, that isn’t a joke. She ended up mostly out of our lives because of it for most of her teenage years. That was a combination of her choice and the pleading request of our county’s Child Protective Services. They asked that we not bring her into the county from the county where her mother lived because they didn’t want to ever have to get involved in her mess if there ever was an incident here.)

So I wrote about books so as not to implicate myself! But, I read a lot of books so that worked out well. I’ve gotten to go to book events and author talks. I’ve dove into the world of ARCs and realized how overwhelming that can be and then backed away. I’ve expanded what and who I read based on the recommendations that I’ve gotten from bloggers around the world.

There aren’t a lot of people still around from the olden days but I don’t plan on going anywhere. Here’s to another 20 years!