It was five years ago today that I first posted on this blog.

When I started this thing up, I never expected to find an audience. And for eight months, I was right – I averaged under ten visits a day, in those days when most people thought “blogging” was something that happened after cheap beer and burritos.

Things evolved nicely from there, of course. This blog – and blogging – has taken me from being a cranky single dad and frustrated former pundit writing about the Minnesota legislature in his home office to…well, more or less the same thing, but with a much bigger audience!

And I’ve loved just about every minute of it.

Marty Andrade – celebrated his third blog anniversary this past Thursday – had a superb observation:

It’s hard to maintain a blog for a long period of time. It even looks like that at least in the United States blogging is starting to plateau as more people abandon their blogs. Blogging done right can be very rewarding, but if one focuses too much on traffic and linking and puts their expectations too high they won’t be blogging long. There’s sort of a Zen to blogging, you become a good blogger once you let go of you worldly wants.

Marty’s very right. I sometimes ask myself – would I still enjoy this if my readership dropped back to two a day? Or if, worse, the City Pages endorsed me?

Yes. To the first one, anyway.

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