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We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.

My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Maine, at the ripe old age of fifty with someone I deeply love and am very happy with. That's part of why I started the blog.

I think my blog is fairly circumspect and elliptical. I've written personal essays, but they are short and to the point: in and out, and that's that.

Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the Internet allows me to be the eyes and ears for the people sending me postings from Africa.

I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.

Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.

I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.

It's interesting with my blog, because it feels to me less like a blog and more like a forum, because my readers are so funny and leave hysterical comments. And I'm not being humble when I say that very often, the comments are so much better than the post originally was.

Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.

Things that are interesting, people will pass around the Internet, around the world. And the blogosphere is only the tip of the iceberg.