What is better than exposure for your blog? Not much, that is for sure. All who write do it for their information to be consumed. When the counter is low it can make you feel your effort is wasted. Today the Daily Prompt asks us to dream with them. The Dream: The New York Times will feature your blog on their home page. Tens of thousands of people will see your blog first thing in the morning. Write the blog.
My blog is a collection of many things. You will find nonfiction, fiction, humor and truths about being the father of a teenage son and daughter. You will also read about my faith and Christian walk. It may be something you donl;t see much in your blog travels. In fact I hope it is not something usual. I want this blog to be a differnt landing place, one you want to come back to not only due to the co0ntent, but the way it is presented.
Many people believe the things I hold dear are outdated. Such as a Christian lifestyle, monogamous marriage and for that matter a marriage that lasts. People make choices every day about what matters. You know some people think the internet is evil. That there is some monster waiting to devour people and force then to make questionable decisions and post things that offend others. This is not true, just like it was not true before the internet. The world wide web is a vehicle, but the decisions are made by people.
I choose to write a positive blog that respects the choices people make. Sure there are some who read my blog who live a different lifestyle than I, but reading is a way to understand different ideas. When you understand it does not necessarily mean you agree with a lifestyle, accept it or adapt to it, but that you gain information on why the feel the way they do. You can also educate others about why you believe what you do.
This blogging adventure has allowed me to make several friends who not only enjoy sharing their thoughts and talents with the world, but also share their writing journey. Of course they are in many different positions on the writing and author journey. I have learned so much and made some great friends and you will meet many of them as you read my blog.
I am so happy to have the readers of the New york Times checking in to see what Joe’s Musings is all about. Let me know what you find intersting or intriguing and I will be happy to tell you more.
I included some links to other responses to Daily prompt – Viral.
- First | The Magic Black Book
- Wrong way. Taken with HTC One V | Bright Moments Catcher
- The Last Leaf | Bright Moments Catcher
- Who is Bzebza? | Bright Moments Catcher
- What’s going on? | Bright Moments Catcher
- Daily Prompt: Viral – Work in Progress | Let There be Peace on Earth
- What is IT? | Upstairs Productions
- Wild | Agrifun.com
- The Gap | Agrifun.com
- Posing | Agrifun.com
- Awesome Pizza From Awesome People For Awesome Patrons | The Ergot
- First ! | Books, Music, Photography & Movies : my best friends
- Let’s take a drive to Changi Beach | We Live In A Flat
- Viral | Geek Ergo Sum
- Remembering Nana | A mom’s blog
- Photo opportunity | Life & Times
- Going Viral [Daily Prompt: Viral] | unknowinglee
- Daily Prompt: Viral | Under the Monkey Tree
- 100 words | dawnyhosking
- The First Hit Went A Little Like This | Molly Greye
- SEIZING THE MOMENT! Are you ready? | Movers, Shakers, Leadership Makers
- New York Times: Daily Blunder | I really just pretend to know stuff
- Daily Prompt:Viral | Motherhood and Beyond
- Daily Prompt: Viral « Mama Bear Musings
- Mommy Guilt | jennifermarshcurtis
- Boise Is A Meteorologically Oddity; It Has No Weather | The Jittery Goat
- 148. Dancing with the Mouse | kevindeisher
- First Contact | The Ambitious Drifter
- First… | Apocayptic Wonder
- I say tomato… | Sue’s Trifles
- prime subject (First) | photo potpourri
- A politician can be an idiot | MC’s Whispers
- Freinds | cellarfloor
- Daily prompt: We live in an accident-free world, but not in a good way | DCMontreal
- Daily Prompt: Viral | littlegirlstory
- Shoving subjects down students’ throats- Like a Boss | Ideas Opined
- A Message to the World | Eyes Through The Glass – A Blog About Asperger’s
- The Race is On | Andante Cantabile
- Front page of The New York Times! | Everyday Adventures
- I Didn’t Play Nice So Now It’s Time To Take My Ball And Go Home | Liars, Hypocrites & The Development of Human Emotion
- First pic… | Hope* the happy hugger
- Reinvention of Mama – What It’s All About | Reinvention of Mama
- On Being Fat | Inkbelle
- Black | Jasper Smits
- Daily Post: The Mainstream | One Starving Activist
- Daily Prompt: Viral | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss
- Daily Prompt: Viral : Dear Mr. Crazy | Valley Girl Gone Country
- First Timer | Somebody Else’s Moments
- Daily Prompt – A note to New York | mostlytrueramblings
- The First Time I Saw You | A mom’s blog
- “Viral” | Relax
- Daily Prompt: Viral – A New World | For the Love of Images
- Obama, Merkel and St. Augustine | Blognovic’s Weblog
- Cutting a swathe through the Literary Body! | alienorajt
- Daily Post: Shameless Self-Promotion on an Epic Scale or Not? | Far from Done
- Daily Prompt: Viral | My Atheist Blog
- Mommy’s First | clarior e tenebris
- The Not Really News Blog sold to New York Times for record-breaking price | The not really news blog
- Those Things That Are Magical | Daniel Waltz
- Daily Prompt-Friendship | readingwithafeather
- Daily Prompt: Viral | Basically Beyond Basic
- Daily Prompt – Viral | Joe’s Musings
- First Impression | The Cutter Rambles
- A peaceful and vanishing time… | A Virtual World
- The Detroit Most Never See | A Beautiful Detroit
- Obsessing Over Something More Worthwhile/ Daily Prompt: Viral | lopezunleashed
- First Time… on a Harley… | The Rider
- A Call To Arms | Good2begone
- Viral | The Nameless One
- First | Flowers and Breezes
- The Zombie Virus is Real…..wp daily prompt | Daily Observations
- Open Your Eyes! | 1000 Words Daily
- The First Lost Tooth | Northwest Frame of Mind
- Daily Prompt: Viral » My Life, My Way, My Words
- The smell of a mail | Rangelz Blog
- Daily Prompt: Viral « The Blogging Path
- First Impressions: EDS Defined | Living Because of EDS
- FIGHT FAUX NEWS | Emotional Fitness
- Layering viral time across Armageddon | Fragments of Michael Dickel
- Betty White is not my Grandma | Grandma Drives Me Crazy
- Daily Prompt: First | Simply Julie!
- Love Rocks | smilingbug
- sarahscapes
- Yours Truly: Front and Centre (Part II). | Forlorn Hope: A Diary Of A Broken Heart
- First Time We Met Izzy | It’s a wonderful F’N life
- Daily Prompt: Viral | From Slacker To Scribe
- it was all in the presentation | Musings of a Random Mind
- Daily Prompt: Viral 22|8 | familyphotosfoodcraft.com
- Got Balls? | Lifentruthz
- Is music really all that great? | Rob’s Surf Report
- Daily Prompt; Viral | terry1954
- Not Cool Rolling Stone: A Teacher’s Response | Upstairs Productions
- Artsy Susie
- The Long Yawn of Mortality | meanderedwanderings
- A Place to Exist | Oldest Daughter & Redheaded Sister
- Help it’s Friday! A new to-do list. | fictitious1
- Virus, virii, viral, viralis. | Legends of Lorata
- The New York Times: Viral | Often Me
- Remembering you | Natasha’s Memory Garden
- Virus « froodian pseudoanalysis
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