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Mar 28

The Little Corner Turns Three

Posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2012 in Explanations and Excuses, Ramblings

Okey-dokey. Another year gone by and nothing much has changed here at my web site. Hits and visitors have leveled off a bit, but are still rising ever-so-slightly. I still try to post at least once a week or more, on topics ranging from beer to politics to religion to philosophy to games to literature. A War Between States is still trickling in. Etc.

The things that have changed for me this year have been things APART from this site, so although they affect what kind of thing I do here somewhat, they haven’t impacted The Little Corner of the Universe’s purpose - which is to give you periodic pieces of my mind, where I try to impress you with my wit and wisdom. Where I try to be funny and cerebral at the same time (doesn’t always compute, since the scat humor I sometimes digress into can hardly be called cerebral). Where I try to convince you that I’m pretty much correct pretty much all the time.

If you’re new here, thanks for coming to the site’s third birthday "party." If you’re an old friend, thanks AGAIN for helping me stay afloat and encouraged. Thank you thank you thank you.

And keep coming back.

Now, I’d sell myself short if I didn’t point out the ONE thing that’s changed here - and that’s my side navigation over there ->

You’ll see there a link to the two collections of short stories I had published last year. One set I self-published, after a bunch of soul-searching whether it was the right thing to do (I maintain that it was). The other set got published by Hallowed Waste, a small, newly established "press" run by a friend of mine who took an interest in me and a couple of other folks, and was willing to back us. Those stories represent an endeavor that I’d like to see be as successful as this site has been. Or more so.

So, while you’re here, I now encourage you to do TWO things. Take a little while to look around The Little Corner - check out some of my past rants and raves. AND, take a minute to go to whichever point of sale floats your boat, and then fork over the .99 cents it takes (I know, right? Only .99 cents!) to get your hands on my stories.

I think that, after you do, you’ll become a regular. I aim to please.

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Jul 8

A Break In The Flow

Posted on Friday, July 8, 2011 in Explanations and Excuses, Ramblings

Here we go again. It’s summertime, which always means that at some point, the fam and I are gonna pack up and head to someplace that isn’t our house. And we’ll stay there a while.

Last year I wrote this post about how much I suck at vacations. Well, ever since I suffered that slight misery last summer, I vowed not to repeat it. That’s why I’ve worked really hard all week to get to a place where I feel like enough is done that I can leave it all behind for a while. The stories are published, the clients are content, the yard is mowed (for now), the kids are healthy and everything’s paid for. I even cut down on booze and upped the ante on exercise to make up for the inevitable LACK of activity I’m about to engage in. The only thing that’s kind of lagging are submissions of my impending novel to my editor. But she’s behind herself, so she doesn’t care that much - and I think I’ll have a chunk ready for her by the end of day today.

The only thing that remains besides packing and making one more pass at the gym is writing THIS post to let you know I’ll be absent from the keyboard a while. I may Tweet and I may Facebook a little - depends on the connectivity where I’m going - but I’m gonna be sort of gone for something like 10 days.

It makes me feel better just saying that ahead of time.

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Mar 24

The Little Corner’s Second Anniversary!!!

Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2011 in Explanations and Excuses, Ramblings

I’ve read in a couple of places that blog readership has declined somewhat over the last year or so, as social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter allow us to “microblog”, and we’re more likely to follow tiny posts than invest the energy and attention in longer ones. 

If that’s the case, I’ve seen no indication of it with the numbers for my site. Now granted, I’m no Charlie Sheen, with the whole world following my steady burn, but I’m doing okay. Hits and visitors have steadily increased over the past months (and my tracking software SUPPOSEDLY identifies bots and spiders, so my numbers are more or less clean). This past January was an absolute blowout.

I don’t know how many of you have been watching this space the whole time it’s been here, but I’d really love to thank you. You’ve made me want to continue slogging away with this site, trying to entertain, inspire, and inform you on all the little things I like to talk about. At this point, I’ve been doing it for TWO WHOLE YEARS! And for those of you who are relatively new to willkenyon.com, thank YOU for stopping by, and please come back. Again and again.

Recently, I did a little housekeeping, and started a couple of new side navs, which are over there to the right. The purpose of them is twofold: First, to provide newcomers access to some popular older posts, and to some of my more creative endeavors. Second, to provide “old-timers” quick delivery of some of the items that they liked from the past. With two years of posts, it can be a little daunting to wade through all the stuff I’ve written in order to find the gems. Also, if you happen to visit here and you think the stuff currently on the front page is crap, you can click through and be reminded of why you came here before.

So check them out. Check out the Greatest Hits link, and check out the Short Stories and Poems link. Go ahead. I’ll be here when you get back.

Finally, come back to THIS page sometime in the next few days, and I’ll tell you about something exciting (at least to me, and hopefully to you) that’s in the pipeline.

Thanks again, everybody. Here’s to another great year.

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