I'm always surprised, and more than a little amazed and humbled, when someone discovers the House and then procedes to read the entire thing from the start. Often it happens in a couple of sittings, lasting hours. I can't imagine that I would elicite that much interest.
So out there in middle America, in Omaha, whoever you are, thanks for making my day. And for making my page hits go through the roof today.
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OK, you’ve got me 🙂 I found you thru a link on the blog of Terri Royea, a knitter whom I do not know personally, but whose blog I read.
I lived 15 years in Alaska (10 in Fairbanks and the rest in Anchorage), leaving there in 1990, to return to the Midwest to help my folks. I miss Alaska and the uniqueness of the far North. So I was quite pleased to read thru your blog. In my work I had occasion to travel to the Bush, but doubt I would have been able to endure the isolation. When I first returned to the Lower 48, I certainly missed the Native faces, and found the traffic and general unfriendliness of daily living here to be too much. I guess I’ve adjusted, but I will always feel blessed to have had the 15 years of extraordinary experiences in the Arctic.
You have a great writing style! And keep the police true mysteries coming! Very interesting, all of it!
Funny, because it always freaks me out. I’m more comfortable with the daily stalkers than the occasional OHMYGOD A NEW BLOG person. I know, this makes no sense. Maybe it’s because some of these guys send me hate mail.
I doubt Clare gets any hate mail. I’m with him on just found your blog people. Their comments can make you day.
Welcome Annette. Terri is actually a friend of mine that I’ve known long before blogging. Her husband and I worked together in northern Saskatchewan. Thank you very much for the kind words.
Its not so much the newness of the visiting that appeals to me Megan. It is the idea that my writing or content appeals enough to someone that they’d sit and read the whole blog at one or two sittings. That’s probably over 1200 posts.
I haven’t got any hate mail Dave since the last thing I wrote on Trap Neuter Release. Maybe I should write on the Nebraska feral cat study. That should generate some.
Yeah, I’ve got 2300 posts, so nobody ever actually makes it all the way through. But when I see someone sitting there for hours, reading hundreds of posts, it unnerves me. I wish I could feel that they’re reading because they like what I have to say. But for some reason, I brace myself for illiterate hate mail.
Maybe this is because my only long-term troll, the only guy I actually had to ban from commenting, showed up after one of those marathon sessions.
I haven’t had any experiences like that. When it happens I’m pretty sure it is because someone is interested in what I’m writing, or the Arctic and goes back to the beginning. So I end up feeling pretty good about it. For the most part I don’t write about anything that can be a touch point with trolls, so thus far that hasn’t been a problem.