Mark Wright’s Blog

This is my 100^th blog.  How Cow!  When I first took the position at Blue Sand, I was told that one of my job functions would be to blog.  While I knew what a blog was, I had never written one.  I asked the usual questions and was pretty happy to find out the criteria was pretty broad. 

The first few were pretty difficult.  It felt a bit forced and uncomfortable.  After a while, I got used to it and actually began to enjoy it.  Blogging has allowed me an outlet to vent about things that aggravate me, things that make me laugh and sometimes just collect my thoughts.

I have written about business related topics such as website design and search engine optimization as well as being able to write about Bigfoot, bad parenting, general idiocy and the occasional feel good blog.  I wish there were more opportunities to write about those but that will be a blog for a different day. 

I think the thing that I like most about it is that people actually read them.  I have received comments from people all over the country.  I have even had a few linked to other websites.  Some people enjoy them and some are offended.  I guess you can’t please everyone. 

I go back and periodically read them.  Some I am pretty proud of.  Some could be better and some are just plain weak.  I guess you can’t hit a home run every time.  In my previous life as a print journalist, I wrote every day.  I enjoyed it.  As I got more involved in business, I wrote less and less.  I have notebooks full of half written stories and book ideas.  Blogging has allowed me an outlet to write once again and I am grateful for that. 

So this is blog 100.  It is not very funny, probably not very insightful and not terribly informative.  However, it is an achievement to me.  I figured out that I have written close to 50,000 words.  That would be coming up on novel size. 

For those who have read them and posted comments, thank you.  Even if you thought they were “turrible” as Charles Barkley would say, thanks for reading anyway.