Writing a blog isn’t as easy as I first thought. You have to come up with topics and sometimes I can’t think of a thing to write on. Add to this, some of the topics I could write about are too sad, or too personal. Some people have asked me to not write about them in my blog, wanting to remain as private as possible. Some think I might embarrass them and have asked me to give them an alias. Since I write on my life’s musings, this limits my range of interesting topics. It limits people I can embarrass too.

To overcome the limits, I try to find something interesting in the everyday mundane things of life. Like washing the floor. Jerry just told me he plans to wash our tile floor in a new manner. He will slosh water on the floor and then scrub it like crazy with a broom. “This will get it really clean,” he told me. Now I could write about washing the floor after I have the chance to see how this new way of cleaning works. Maybe I could turn it into an inspirational piece and connect the mundane topic of washing the floor with the motivational challenge to clean up your act. But I don’t have readers who have acts that need cleaning up. Do I?
Other obstacles contributing to my depleted creative writing muse involve my other writing projects. I’m writing a book about the detours and disappointment in life. I’m also writing a children’s picture book. Both of these undertakings take a lot of my creative energy and leave me with hardly any thought-provoking ideas for a blog.

I started this blog in 2014 as a marketing “platform” to sell my book (Five Minutes For France). I don’t know how many books sold due to my blog’s rambling, but I started connecting with my blog readers and so I kept at it.
I’m not writing to ask for your sympathy or your understanding (although it wouldn’t hurt to give me both), but I’m writing to say this: I’m so appreciative of Jerry who does many things for me, including washing the floors in our home. I don’t care how Jerry does it. He can hang from the ceiling fan as he washes or roller-skate through the house with a broom and mop. Whatever way he chooses is okay by me. Washing floors is not a job I want, so I’m very happy Jerry has taken this on.
Now that I think on it…washing floors could be an analogy for cleaning up your act. Yes, the inspiration comes to me now.

Dear readers, I appreciate your faithfulness in reading my blog, and I enjoy your comments as long as they’re positive. But let’s talk about cleaning up your act. First, (and this comes to my mind right off), start by obeying the laws. I don’t want to hear of my readers being arrested any more.  Second, please quit spitting, and belching in public. Believe me, the spitting has got to go. There. I said what needed to be said. I hope this blog makes a huge difference in the betterment of your life. It’s why I struggle through writer’s block and depleted creative thought. It’s for you that I continue to write this blog since its inception in 2014.  βω♥