Today is YOUR day!

I’m so happy to still be around for our fifteenth Love our Lurkers day. I’m delighted you took a minute to stop by here. I do want to encourage my lurkers to speak up, but I want to give you my reasons.

 

Blogging isn’t as popular as it once was. Many people have moved on to Twitter and Instagram and probably other things I’m not even aware of. Things there move faster. Ideas have to be concise and short and many people love that. Blogging moves at a slower pace and I admit I kind of like that. I like being able to get long winded if I choose or just post a picture if that says it all for me that day.

 

But the thing I like best is something I think we all need to be aware of – most especially now.  I love comments. I like reaching out to people with my thoughts and I love it when they reach back. I don’t see many people face to face these days. I’m guessing many of you don’t either. But it’s safe here. I sit in front of my computer – mask less – and talk with people. Sometimes I get long comments back that lets me know that person really understands. Sometimes I get funny or sarcastic comments which always makes me laugh. And at times I just get a ‘thanks’ or ‘I understand’ and it really helps me not feel so alone in our strange world.

 

I’ve been trying (not always successfully) to post three times a week. With Covid everywhere I want to provide some normalcy – for myself and for my readers. No, I don’t post about spanking all the time. I still post about my kids, things that are happening in my world, silly things, serious things, the things you normally talk about with your friends. And these days those of you reading here now are the friends I get to talk to. And if you’re more comfortable emailing – elisspeaks@yahoo.com

 

One more thing, I nearly always answer my comment – I have more time than many of my fellow bloggers who are trying to juggle jobs, kids, home school and many, many other things. But being retired and sitting here with my computer for hours I do like to respond if you’ve taken the time to talk with me. I used to get an email alert when I got a comment. I don’t any more. So if you comment on a post a day or two after it goes up. It might be a few day until I see it, but I do go back and check and I will answer. So you go back and check too. 

 

And a word to my fellow bloggers – and I’m definitely talking to myself too. We need to do a better job commenting to one another. I’m sure guilty of reading and moving on without commenting. If we truly want our lurkers to talk to us, we need to talk to one another. And let me say once again – Thank God for Roz! She keeps me from feeling like I’m talking to myself!