Urs Truly has made a MEME about blogging. These questions are a conglomerate of questions bloggers and nonbloggers have asked me over the years. To get the ball rolling I provide my own answers. I hope you find this interesting enough to try it yourself.
What you like most about being a blogger?
When I started blogging 6-7 years ago I liked how it gave me a channel to express myself through creative writing. Now I like it most for the people I meet along the way.
How many bloggers have you met?
Before March 2013, I had met maybe a dozen, if I count the ones no longer blogging. After “The Delaware soiree” my dance card swelled to over three dozen.
Do you ever go back and read your old entries?
I try not to do this, for I want to edit and ‘improve things’, which is an endless task.
Do you share your job skills here?
Yes, I write about psychiatry and psychology in the hopes of helping others. It is part of the ‘job description’ of being a Healer.
Have you changed your views about anything thanks to blogging?
Yes. I am no longer opposed to the legalization of marijuana, although I find it loathsome.
Do your coworkers know about your blog?
Not that I know. I had one patient announce she/he had found my blog. It was a reminder to be quite thoughtful before I push the ‘publish’ button.
What advice would you give for successful blogging?
This depends how we define ‘successful’ of course. I think one should blog first for yourself, not for an audience or to get warm fuzzies. Nothing attracts readers like self assurance.
What is your opinion of aardvarks?
I have a great respect for them; I try to transform into one on a regular basis.
Do you publish everything you write ?
Nearly everything. Sometimes I will write out an idea, work on it and discover it is boring or dated. I then delete it.
If you could make ‘three rules’ for blogging, what would they be?
1# Readers should leave a comment to tell the blogger they were there and this acts as a thank you for your work.
2# Bloggers are not allowed to ‘disappear’; they must give notice of a pending closing down.
3# If a blog ‘goes private’ this should also be announced. I dislike showing up suddenly to a ‘locked door without being told ahead of time or at least offered an invite to come in.
Do people help you write your blog?
Sometimes I run an idea by Someone or ask his advise. I don’t ask anyone else.
Who are your blogger super-heroes?
Mitchell is Moving is my current ego-ideal and role model. His blog is consistently entertaining and beautifully illustrated with the most colorful photos.
Gambrinous with griffonage is also “top of my list” when it comes to fabulousness.
Final question (if you dare!) :
Have you slept with any of your fellow bloggers?
Does ‘In my dreams” count? 😀
40 comments
November 20, 2013 at 8:56 PM
David Jeffreys
What a great MEME! And all of us bloggers surely have answers to your questions. I will post it on my http://ladyslippercove.blogspot.com blog, though it may take me some time to come up with all the answers.
November 20, 2013 at 9:26 PM
truthspew
I am so copying this one. Thanks!
November 20, 2013 at 10:23 PM
anne marie in philly
look for an entry from ME soon!
November 20, 2013 at 11:12 PM
David Jeffreys
Your answer to the Final Question perhaps could have been answered a little more honestly. Surely you have slept with Someone.
Oh, I hope this comment does not re-convene the Board of Directors at Spo-Reflections.
November 21, 2013 at 12:14 AM
Raybeard
I’d absolutely concur with the first of your ‘Three rules for blogging’. A little evidence that one has visited a blog means so very much – especially to someone like me who has no ‘here-in-the-flesh’ friends in the world. (It doesn’t have to be lengthy and OTT). I just try to imagine that the blogger has the same need for appreciation as I experience – it’s not difficult – and when one gets such an acknowledgment it’s like receiving a ‘positive stroke’.
November 21, 2013 at 12:35 AM
Jean
I also agrre with your three rules, especially the one about blogs that suddenly stop or go private.
Followers do feel like friends after a while – isn’t that why a lot of people blog – to meet up with like minded people and for the company? So why suddenly shut the door in their faces? It’s simply very bad manners.
Apart from that, if I have been following a blog for some time , I worry that something terrible has happened if it suddenly goes quiet.
November 21, 2013 at 3:48 AM
Laurent
thank you for letting me discover another blog Mitchell is Moving. Very interesting given that we just returned from Spain.
November 21, 2013 at 3:55 AM
Frogdancer
This has nothing to do with this post, but…. seen this?
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/jesse-tyler-ferguson-stars-as-the-first-gay-bachelor-in-a-new-funny-or-die-skit/story-e6frfmq9-1226764107548
November 21, 2013 at 7:12 PM
Urspo
hohoho
I suspect most can relate to it !
November 21, 2013 at 4:07 AM
DG
I need to blog more consistently – maybe make go to Del in the spring. I’ll be in Phoenix for a conference in May.
November 21, 2013 at 4:52 AM
usstorageunit
Love your Blig, Muchael! Thank you for sharing your life with us!!
November 21, 2013 at 5:28 AM
Rick Bettencourt
I love these meme posts. You always get a great insight into the blogger. So that aardvark I saw recently must’ve been you!
November 21, 2013 at 7:02 AM
Mitchell is Moving
Wow! First of all, thanks so much for including the “aardvark question.” This is too often ignored. Also, I love your three rules of blogging.
But, wow, wow, wow! Thank you so much for the extremely kind words!
November 21, 2013 at 7:11 PM
Urspo
I hope ‘more traffic’ comes your way for it!
November 21, 2013 at 7:26 AM
ra
I very much enjoy your blog.Thanks for all the entertainment and insight.
November 21, 2013 at 8:26 AM
Urspo
Thank you. I am glad you like it, and I am honored by you.
November 21, 2013 at 5:13 PM
jayinva
Very cool! Thanks for a neat post!
Peace ❤
Jay
November 21, 2013 at 6:04 PM
jason
well, gee…now I shall have to check out anyone who uses the word “gambrinous” 🙂
November 22, 2013 at 9:00 AM
Massage Jeffrey
don’t forget ‘griffonage’!
November 22, 2013 at 9:04 AM
Urspo
ooh ! I wish you practiced nearby: I would be a weekly client!
November 22, 2013 at 10:22 PM
Erik Rubright
LOL. You should see the looks I get at the studio when I’m writing out something in my “native” handwriting.
November 22, 2013 at 10:22 PM
Erik Rubright
If I’m going to be “full of it”, I may as well make it beer!
November 22, 2013 at 11:50 AM
Tom Hanlin
Tschm. Click. I’d recommend reading your old blog entries, on occasion, because it reminds you of who you were and where you’ve been. Mmm, I am for legalization of marijuana, I think the current legal drugs are less functional and more dangerous. I suspect you wouldn’t actually like being an aardvark but, the look might suit you.
November 22, 2013 at 7:50 PM
john
I love memes although I wouldn’t know how to create one for myself…
November 22, 2013 at 10:21 PM
Erik Rubright
You think I’m a blogger super-hero? Aww… *blush*. And I think I’m fairly certain you are the first person to deem anything I’ve done as being filled with “fabulousness”. *double blush*
I’m going to steal your meme now. 🙂
November 23, 2013 at 5:46 AM
Urspo
You are not a superhero but a god – given that hat!
November 22, 2013 at 11:19 PM
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November 23, 2013 at 7:22 AM
JimA
I have posted my answers on Jim’s Stuff.
Well done good doctor! 🙂
November 24, 2013 at 5:10 AM
Cubby
Very cool meme, Spo. I’m following suit on Patently Queer.
November 24, 2013 at 5:50 AM
DG
Posted on the Penguin
November 24, 2013 at 9:22 AM
Ron
Excellent meme. Your answer very interesting. I will steal this meme. Thanks!
November 24, 2013 at 12:46 PM
the cajun
If I do’d it, I det a whippin’. OK, I do’d it.
November 24, 2013 at 12:50 PM
Urspo
oh good! I will have some olives in anticipation!
November 24, 2013 at 2:48 PM
anne marie in philly
yes, yes, bugs bunny!
November 25, 2013 at 1:33 PM
Greg
I’m a bit late to the party, but I took a turn at answering: http://mrgregoc.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-bogger-meme.html
November 26, 2013 at 8:47 PM
mike
whew!! tried to post my meme as well. took me sometime but i made it without any injuries. 🙂
November 27, 2013 at 4:09 AM
Urspo
thank you for being part of this!
November 30, 2013 at 10:22 PM
javabear
I was here.
And late to the party. Haven’t been online in over a week. I should blog about it. Plan to, actually, and with pictures. Proof that I was in Florida. But I also might do this meme thing, though I’ll have to consider my response to the aardvark question as I don’t often consider aardvarks.
July 11, 2015 at 4:20 AM
Kato
“I was here”. Snooping around. Thanks!
April 15, 2016 at 3:54 PM
itsmyhusbandandme
I’m still here.
JP