Daily Prompt – Viral

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Many people believe the things I hold dear are outdated.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.

1. First | The Magic Black Book
2. Wrong way. Taken with HTC One V | Bright Moments Catcher
3. The Last Leaf | Bright Moments Catcher
4. Who is Bzebza? | Bright Moments Catcher
5. What’s going on? | Bright Moments Catcher
6. Daily Prompt: Viral – Work in Progress | Let There be Peace on Earth
7. What is IT? | Upstairs Productions
8. Wild | Agrifun.com
9. The Gap | Agrifun.com
10. Posing | Agrifun.com
11. Awesome Pizza From Awesome People For Awesome Patrons | The Ergot
12. First ! | Books, Music, Photography & Movies : my best friends
13. Let’s take a drive to Changi Beach | We Live In A Flat
14. Viral | Geek Ergo Sum
15. Remembering Nana | A mom’s blog
16. Photo opportunity | Life & Times
17. Going Viral [Daily Prompt: Viral] | unknowinglee
18. Daily Prompt: Viral | Under the Monkey Tree
19. 100 words | dawnyhosking
20. The First Hit Went A Little Like This | Molly Greye
21. SEIZING THE MOMENT! Are you ready? | Movers, Shakers, Leadership Makers
22. New York Times: Daily Blunder | I really just pretend to know stuff
23. Daily Prompt:Viral | Motherhood and Beyond
24. Daily Prompt: Viral « Mama Bear Musings
25. Mommy Guilt | jennifermarshcurtis
26. Boise Is A Meteorologically Oddity; It Has No Weather | The Jittery Goat
27. 148. Dancing with the Mouse | kevindeisher
28. First Contact | The Ambitious Drifter
29. First… | Apocayptic Wonder
30. I say tomato… | Sue’s Trifles
31. prime subject (First) | photo potpourri
32. A politician can be an idiot | MC’s Whispers
33. Freinds | cellarfloor
34. Daily prompt: We live in an accident-free world, but not in a good way | DCMontreal
35. Daily Prompt: Viral | littlegirlstory
36. Shoving subjects down students’ throats- Like a Boss | Ideas Opined
37. A Message to the World | Eyes Through The Glass – A Blog About Asperger’s
38. The Race is On | Andante Cantabile
39. Front page of The New York Times! | Everyday Adventures
40. I Didn’t Play Nice So Now It’s Time To Take My Ball And Go Home | Liars, Hypocrites & The Development of Human Emotion
41. First pic… | Hope* the happy hugger
42. Reinvention of Mama – What It’s All About | Reinvention of Mama
43. On Being Fat | Inkbelle
44. Black | Jasper Smits
45. Daily Post: The Mainstream | One Starving Activist
46. Daily Prompt: Viral | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss
47. Daily Prompt: Viral : Dear Mr. Crazy | Valley Girl Gone Country
48. First Timer | Somebody Else’s Moments
49. Daily Prompt – A note to New York | mostlytrueramblings
50. The First Time I Saw You | A mom’s blog
51. “Viral” | Relax
52. Daily Prompt: Viral – A New World | For the Love of Images
53. Obama, Merkel and St. Augustine | Blognovic’s Weblog
54. Cutting a swathe through the Literary Body! | alienorajt
55. Daily Post: Shameless Self-Promotion on an Epic Scale or Not? | Far from Done
56. Daily Prompt: Viral | My Atheist Blog
57. Mommy’s First | clarior e tenebris
58. The Not Really News Blog sold to New York Times for record-breaking price | The not really news blog
59. Those Things That Are Magical | Daniel Waltz
60. Daily Prompt-Friendship | readingwithafeather
61. Daily Prompt: Viral | Basically Beyond Basic
62. Daily Prompt – Viral | Joe’s Musings
63. First Impression | The Cutter Rambles
64. A peaceful and vanishing time… | A Virtual World
65. The Detroit Most Never See | A Beautiful Detroit
66. Obsessing Over Something More Worthwhile/ Daily Prompt: Viral | lopezunleashed
67. First Time… on a Harley… | The Rider
68. A Call To Arms | Good2begone
69. Viral | The Nameless One
70. First | Flowers and Breezes
71. The Zombie Virus is Real…..wp daily prompt | Daily Observations
72. Open Your Eyes! | 1000 Words Daily
73. The First Lost Tooth | Northwest Frame of Mind
74. Daily Prompt: Viral » My Life, My Way, My Words
75. The smell of a mail | Rangelz Blog
76. Daily Prompt: Viral « The Blogging Path
77. First Impressions: EDS Defined | Living Because of EDS
78. FIGHT FAUX NEWS | Emotional Fitness
79. Layering viral time across Armageddon | Fragments of Michael Dickel
80. Betty White is not my Grandma | Grandma Drives Me Crazy
81. Daily Prompt: First | Simply Julie!
82. Love Rocks | smilingbug
83. sarahscapes
84. Yours Truly: Front and Centre (Part II). | Forlorn Hope: A Diary Of A Broken Heart
85. First Time We Met Izzy | It’s a wonderful F’N life
86. Daily Prompt: Viral | From Slacker To Scribe
87. it was all in the presentation | Musings of a Random Mind
88. Daily Prompt: Viral 22|8 | familyphotosfoodcraft.com
89. Got Balls? | Lifentruthz
90. Is music really all that great? | Rob’s Surf Report
91. Daily Prompt; Viral | terry1954
92. Not Cool Rolling Stone: A Teacher’s Response | Upstairs Productions
93. Artsy Susie
94. The Long Yawn of Mortality | meanderedwanderings
95. A Place to Exist | Oldest Daughter & Redheaded Sister
96. Help it’s Friday! A new to-do list. | fictitious1
97. Virus, virii, viral, viralis. | Legends of Lorata
98. The New York Times: Viral | Often Me
99. Remembering you | Natasha’s Memory Garden
100. Virus « froodian pseudoanalysis