A Decade of Tightrope Walking – a celebration of ten years of blogging

A Decade of Tightrope Walking – a celebration of ten years of blogging

February the 9^th marks a full decade since I began Zen and the Art of Tightrope Walking.

I’m genuinely not sure how to mark this milestone. Most blogs put up a couple of posts, then abruptly stop. Some last a couple of years before petering about. But here’s mine, now in double figures. Heaven knows it’s not far from becoming a teenager and then what’ll I do? It’ll be staying out late and bringing home unsuitable websites before I know it.

It’s also weird looking at my stats; I’m not far off a quarter of a million visits in the last ten years. Of those visits, over 15k have been to my post on Susan Howatch. https://zenandtheartoftightropewalking.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/susan-howatch-a-writer-to-get-addicted-to/

13K to my joke post Peas are Bad For You. https://zenandtheartoftightropewalking.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/peas-are-bad-for-you/

Then comes 11k or so for https://zenandtheartoftightropewalking.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/and-the-oak-tree-and-the-cypress-grow-not-in-each-others-shadow-on-love-and-marriage/

https://zenandtheartoftightropewalking.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/if-youre-going-through-hell-keep-going-or-why-winston-churchill-was-right/ has over 10k hits

Just a little less than 10k for The Red Shoes: https://zenandtheartoftightropewalking.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/the-red-shoes-a-dark-faery-tale-of-compulsion-and-addiction/

Over 5k to this one on Holman Hunt: https://zenandtheartoftightropewalking.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/the-light-of-the-world-by-holman-hunt/ and 4k on About me: https://zenandtheartoftightropewalking.wordpress.com/about/

With this post there will be 1053 posts.

I wanted to do something to celebrate, something for myself, so I happened upon a very pretty silver and peridot pendant, with an Egyptian theme, as the novel I am working on has something to do with Egyptian mythology as one of its themes. Here it is:

If you have been following this blog all these years, thank you for sticking with me. If you are new to it, be welcome. If you’re an occasional visitor, it’s lovely to see you.

Thank you, everyone, because without readers a blog is just someone yelling into the void. Thank you for reading and thank you for being there. You make the darkness a little less dark and frightening. Bless you.