Soon it will be 10 years since my first post on this blog in August 2011. The purpose was to prepare myself for retirement in December 2011 defining what is of value to me and applying it to the rest of my life. It has been a successful journey and I hope the over 42,000 readers and followers were able to enjoy it as much as I have. It has become a great personal journal that I reference as often as I want. I think it will be around for a long time as there doesn't appear to be any limitations.
If you have been a follower, you may have noticed the posts have decreased in recent years as I have reached many of the goals I had set for myself and mostly because I don't like repeating similar posts. My retirement has been a success and all indications are that it will continue on that path even if I change direction somewhat about what I feel like writing about. I still love to write! I just got this notice from the blog administrators:
"FollowByEmail widget (Feedburner) is going away...After July 2021, your feed will still continue to work, but the automated emails to your subscribers will no longer be supported. If you’d like to continue sending emails, you can download your subscriber contacts."
So what this means is that those readers that wait to get an email that I have a new post will no longer get email notice. I will remove the "Follow by Email" widget on the first page of my blog. Even if I knew all my readers and followers, I would not put their privacy at risk by providing their addresses to another source! I have never had that information anyway. You will decide if you want to see my future posts after July 2021 by bookmarking my blog address and just checking at your convenience for any new posts. I suggest you check once a month. I still want to share my thoughts and events at least to the end of 2021 and will re-examine my desires in the new year.
I have completed one long chapter covering my first ten years in my autobiography earlier this year and may get back on track with that project. I also have not progressed much in my goal to digitized about 40 years of hard copy photos. I think I may combine this process with the writing of my autobiography which worked well for that first chapter. I think if I commit to this huge project and make it my priority, I may write less in my blog. But like I did for 2020, I may catch up one year of thoughts and events in a few posts at the end of the year. So at least check my blog at the end of a year, if you are still interested. I may write in my blog about the progress of my autobiography and share some things I discover about my younger self from my new perspective starting at my current age of 67. Maybe the reader can travel back in time with me and look at their own memories from the 1950s to the present. This will take time. Since I own my own time in retirement, my New Normal can be any combination of past, present, and future!
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