Not sure what reminded me, but today is this blog’s 23rd birthday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It’s kind of amazing how life evolves – too slowly to perceive, yet startling, even overwhelming over time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On February 5, 2002, I was a fairly newly-single parent, working at a company that was visibly circling the drain faster and faster every day.\u00a0 My kids were 10 and 9 years old.\u00a0 I wasn’t adrift,\u00a0 per se<\/em> – “overwhelmed” is probably a better word.\u00a0<\/p>\n I was reading Time <\/em>magazine at my desk over lunch hour, and I tripped into an article about the new generation of conservative intellectuals, focusing on Andrew Sullivan, who was probably the first big-name “conservative” “celebrity” blogger.\u00a0 A sidebar explained what a “blog” was, and gave a URL to “Blogger.com”.\u00a0<\/p>\n Which I followed, that night, after the kids went to bed.\u00a0 I started writing that night, and 23 years later, I haven’t stopped.\u00a0<\/p>\n The first two years of Shot in the Dark are long lost.\u00a0 The next two are a little tenuous. But I’ve been writing on this platform, WordPress, since 2006.\u00a0\u00a0 I need a big of a technical facelift – I’m praying for a two day blizzard that’d justify me spending that kind of non-work time at my desk.\u00a0<\/p>\n My kids are now a tad older than I was when they were born.\u00a0\u00a0 My career – which seemed fragile and tenuous 23 years ago – has worked out pretty well.\u00a0 Better than that company did, anyway.\u00a0 The blog morphed into the Northern Alliance of Blogs, where I met King, Ed, Chad, Brian, Atomizer, JB, John HInderaker and Scott Johnson and, eventually, the first real-life social circle I’d had in a long, long time.\u00a0<\/p>\n Life moves slow – usually. Starting this blog 23 years ago today kicked off one of the bigger, better evolutions in mine.\u00a0 And for that – and all of you – I’m thankful.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not sure what reminded me, but today is this blog’s 23rd birthday.\u00a0 It’s kind of amazing how life evolves – too slowly to perceive, yet startling, even overwhelming over time.\u00a0 On February 5, 2002, I was a fairly newly-single parent, working at a company that was visibly circling the drain faster and faster every day.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89212,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89211\/revisions\/89212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}