“What’s the deal, Molly?  Where did everyone go?”  I asked her.  I showed her my blog traffic reports.

“Well, your last few posts were kind of religious,” she offered.

“True, but not unusual.  Nothing that would explain a drop off like this.”  She let me mope and scratch my head.  I still don’t know.  I ask myself all of the pertinent questions: Do I suck?  No, that can’t be it, because I am still a lean ball of awesome.  Have my communication skills diminished?  I have been taking on a lot of projects, you know, to pay the bills and so forth.  Maybe they’ve slipped a little.

There are days when the internet is slow and boring.  Usually not back-to-back.  So here’s what I think…

I think maybe people like to keep their enemies.  I don’t know.  I sure do, and I probably wouldn’t let some pretentious blogger, ex-reverend goofbag  tell me that I shouldn’t keep them…

But maybe it’s that my awesome is too huge, or that my skills have slipped.  Whatever.  There is another variable, and that is: bad luck.  I have horrible luck.  There were two weeks in a row when I thought my chance was shifting.  Then the Vikings puked the NFC Championship away (my fault, I think).  Ever since then… bad luck!

We’ll soldier on, because that’s what we do around here.

Tomorrow I will write about flowers and candy.  Rebuild the audience.  (That’s not true at all.)

Anyone interested in blogging for any purpose: fame, fortune or just plain old fun should read this manifesto.  In 279 Days to Overnight Success, Chris Guillebeau, blogger at the Art of Nonconformity, lays out a great plan to conquer the blogging world.

You can read my bad blogging tips here.

What is so funny?

Need the perfect euphemism?  Invent one here.

If you loved 27 Dresses, you’ll love the Christian version (of course if you loved 27 Dresses, you are clinically insane).

reamofpaper friday edition: Spiritual Lessons From My Homeless Cat…

(or, What I’ve learned while blogging for daily bread.)

What was it Little Orphan Annie said, “It’s a hard-knock life?”  Or was that Jay-Z?  Whomever gets the credit: they were right.  I didn’t even know that they blogged.  Here was my erroneous thought process as I launched ReamofPaper: 1) I’m a pretty decent writer.  2) I have some friends who will form an automatic audience.  3) I have read a bunch of blogs about blogging, even a book (though it was not a book labeled specifically “for dummies,” which may be my problem). reading on is educational