The Birth of a Blog

It’ll happen on this coming Sunday … the second anniversary of the day I posted my first blog.

Happy Birthday Lori’s Lane.

Please join me as I share the raw and honest beginnings of this blog, but be prepared, it wasn’t always pretty.

I actually opened up an account as a blogger two and a half years earlier (May of 2009), but I never posted anything. I originally planned for it to be a <gulp> political blog. I lost interest in that notion pretty quickly. However, that is not the reason why I didn’t post anything for thirty months.

You see, right after I opened up an account and named this blog, my beloved son, the only child I had ever parented who happened to have four legs and fur, got sick and died. It took me six months to write anything other than mournful poetry. Once I got back into creative writing, I had no desire to figure out how to maneuver this blog. It seemed like just another irritating social network device to learn, and I’m not computer savvy.

Fifteen months later, a person in my writer’s group opened up his own e-publishing business. He agreed to publish an anthology of my short stories. After nine more months, a memoir anthology was born. The new publisher encouraged me to start an author’s blog. Luck would have it, that I had already signed up for this one, which had remained dormant. Lori’s Lane was born a few days later (after a WordPress learning curve).

As I’m sharing this story and looking back on the whole thing, it seems like the Universe worked in just the right order for this to pan out. It’s really something … how even my loss led to better things. It didn’t seem like it at the time, because after my boy died, the dark, mournful energy followed me around. One thing after another kept going wrong in my life, from my cat dying a few months later, to vehicles and household appliances breaking down, even snakes found their way inside my house. But, as life progressed, things improved, and here I am today, smiling as I type this out.

I never dreamed in a million years how much I’d love blogging. I want to thank all of you who have come into my blogging life and read me. You keep me posting. My clicks are low these days, so for those of you who have stuck with me, thank you, thank you, thank you. May you be infinitely blessed. Those of you who have just found me, a joyful welcome, and blessings to you as well. Merry Christmas my kind-hearted blog friends. Yes, I’m talking to you … personally. Sending warm hugs from Florida.

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