Blog Review For 2007

Thanks to Jan at Yearning for God for the idea of doing a review of my blog year. I started writing on January 22, 2007, and I am approaching my one year blogversary.

I laughed when I returned to my first entry, because I set up my faux blog simply to be able to comment on other blogs. Well, there was this blank screen, and the rest is history, as they say. Here is the first sentence from the first day of each month of 2007:

January - "My friends, I don't really have a blog."

February - "Some months ago at MadPriest's place, there was a long comment thread on New Orleans-style red beans and rice."

March - "Copied verbatim from Scout Prime at First Draft: People's Rebuke for Bush's Photo Op in NOLA today"

April - "Later, perhaps tomorrow, I'll write my impression of my trip to New Orleans with Scout Prime and Athenae from the blog First Draft and the other folks in our group."

May - "This large painting by Manet was part of the exhibit from the Met at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts."

June - "Padre Mickey in Panama is the man to see for the commemoration of the early Christian saints."

July - "You absolutely must go read this hilarious post by Richard at Caught By The Light."

August - "WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 — Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today he felt terrible about the military’s flawed handling of the death of Cpl. Pat Tillman, the former football star who was killed in Afghanistan."

September - "Clergymen struggling to comfort the afflicted in New Orleans are finding they, too, need someone to listen to their troubles."

October - "Remigius was the Bishop and Apostle of the Franks."

November - "The mound of rotted drywall and moldy planks piled recently outside the wrecked house in Algiers looked more or less identical to the countless heaps that have littered the New Orleans landscape since Hurricane Katrina."

December - "According to UNAIDS estimates, there are now 33.2 million people living with HIV, including 2.5 million children. During 2007 some 2.5 million people became newly infected with the virus. Around half of all people who become infected with HIV do so before they are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they are 35."

I began my review laughing, but by the end, I was not laughing. I won't write too much here about the experience of blogging, because I want something left to say on the actual anniversary. I thank all of you who have visited here and who have left comments. I have enjoyed my exchanges with you more than I can say. The engagement with others, as much as my writing, is what gives me pleasure in the blog.