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This blog post is going to be — and I’ll be fairly brief — about my blog.<\/p>\n

High Plains Blogger has been on a roll of late.<\/p>\n

It has set seven consecutive records for monthly page views and unique visitors. I’m quite proud of that streak, and I’ve been none too bashful about sharing the good news with my social media friends.<\/p>\n

April isn’t looking so good. Just six days into the month and I’m sensing a trend that suggests my\u00a0streak is going to stop at seven. That’s all right. I’ve enjoyed a good run and I’m hopeful it will resume soon.<\/p>\n

This blogging adventure has pretty much consumed my life for the past, oh, couple of years.<\/p>\n

I don’t have a full-time job. I’ve three part-time jobs — and I enjoy them all immensely. Two of them involve writing: One of them is for Panhandle PBS, based at Amarillo College; the other one, which I just started in early February, is for KFDA-NewsChannel 10, the CBS-TV affiliate in Amarillo. They’re both blogs. The PBS blog discusses public affairs programming; the NewsChannel 10 blog looks at on-going news stories in our region and the station is good enough to broadcast an on-air report based on the blog I’ve posted on the station’s website.<\/p>\n

The third job is as a customer service concierge with a Toyota dealership here in Amarillo.<\/p>\n

But writing is what I love to do. I was blessed to pursue\u00a0a fulfilling career in print journalism. It was a 37-year run that ended in late August 2012. My work with public and commercial TV stations allows me to continue to working on my craft.<\/p>\n

My first post-newspaper-career passion, though, is my own blog. I truly enjoy venting, ranting, raving, commenting, critiquing public affairs on my blog. Occasionally I veer into what my wife and I call “life experience.”<\/p>\n

I guess the purpose here is to ask you to keep reading High Plains Blogger. If you think you want to share it with your friends, well, have at it. I’m anxious to reach more people and to have them comment on my musings.<\/p>\n

Do not worry about hurting my feelings if you disagree with my particular political slant. Most of my neighbors and most of the people I encounter daily disagree with me. That’s the nature of living in this part of the world.<\/p>\n

Let me know what you think.<\/p>\n

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