{"id":27692,"date":"2018-01-27T00:34:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T00:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27692"},"modified":"2018-01-27T00:34:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T00:34:09","slug":"blog-continues-provide-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27692","title":{"rendered":"Blog continues to provide therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Readers of High Plains Blogger know that I have taken a dim view of Donald John “Braggart in Chief” Trump’s penchant for boasting.<\/p>\n

Thus, I’m going to beg your forgiveness for a brief moment.<\/p>\n

I want to boast a bit myself.<\/p>\n

This blog set an annual record for page views and visitors in 2017. During the year the blog set a monthly record as well, while during month posting a best-ever daily average.<\/p>\n

How, then, is High Plains Blogger doing as the first month of 2018 draws to a close? Pretty darn well.<\/p>\n

There’s a chance the blog will finish the month with its second-best performance. I’ll take that as a victory.<\/p>\n

High Plains Blogger will continue to offer its blend of commentary on public policy, current events and life experience — even after my wife, Toby the Puppy and I relocate to an undetermined place in North Texas.<\/p>\n

I’m still wrestling with whether I should change the blog’s name. It no longer will originate from the High Plains of Texas. I am proud, though, that High Plains Blogger’s name has developed a recognizable brand.<\/p>\n

If I change its name, you’ll be the first to know.<\/p>\n

But writing this blog provides me with a sort of therapy. I spent an entire career stringing sentences together. Much of that time involved writing opinion pieces, whether editorials on behalf of the newspapers where I worked — in Oregon and Texas — or in columns that ran under my own name.<\/p>\n

Thus, High Plains Blogger helps keep my head in the game.<\/p>\n

Make no mistake, there remains plenty of issues on which to chew.<\/p>\n

Life is just so good. As the saying goes: If I were doing any better … I’d be twins.<\/p>\n\n

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