Q&A on (My) Blogging

Whenever conversations go in the direction of blogging (as it did again this week), I am always asked these same questions.

Q. Why blog? 

A. My sons talked me into blogging in 2006 because almost all I do is write. 

Q. What?! You’ve been blogging for, uh, 18 years?!

A. Well, yeah. I post a blog every three to four days; I haven’t missed my rhythm yet. 

Q. What?! 

A. . . . 

Q. What do you write about?  

A. Anything about grace, God’s grace.  

Q. Don’t you run out of things to write about?

A. Does grace run out? Ever?  In fact, I have six months of blogs already written and scheduled for posting.  

Q. What?! You have to be kidding! 

A. . . . 

See, nobody believes me, as though I were some kind of a leg-puller. But to young people who want to be published writers and come to me for tips, I say like a looped recording, “You have to have the itch to write, every single day. Write on all spaces. Blogging is one such space."  

However you want to call it, for me, writing is a tic. A most welcome, delightful tic! It’s my stress buster, vitamin pill, picker-upper, den, refreshment, and watering hole—all in one. 

There's a hitch though. 

Because all my finished blogs have already been scheduled, I need to alter the scheduling when I blog again. And that takes keen attention to details such as the dates on current and future calendars so that not one is missed or misplaced in a different portal.  

If you are a blogger and you have a tic like mine, I am sure you enjoy answering questions such as those above.