Two Thousand Nine Hundred Seventy-Six.

I realized something today, right in the middle of my second Bikram class for the day...

"I have been blogging for over four years now."

Holy crap! Four years? Has it really, truly been that long? I honestly never thought I would stick so consistently with this blog thing for so long. I thought after a year or so, I would let it die. But that never happened. And now, I can't imagine more than a few days going by without getting a post onto the Intertubez.

Back when I started this thing, was ecstatic to get a hundred readers a month. Now, I get close to 300,000 visits a year. And this blog has introduced me to so many wonderful people. People I consider friends, even though I mostly know them from my blog and their blog. And this blog has helped keep my husband and my family updated on everything that goes on in my life and my brain.

I, of course, will continue to write and post on On Common Ground (which I named because when I looked out the window of the high rise I lived in back in Boston for the first few years, my view was of Boston Common)... But I need to find time to sit down and actually begin writing more substantial things.

I started this blog as a way to see if I had something to share and say... And now, four years later, I see that I do. At least for 2,976 posts I have.

(Well, counting this post, it's 2,977.)

Thanks for reading everyone. It means a lot to me.