One Year Anniversary of This Blog

Well, time flies when you’re having fun. I just noticed that it was October 30, 2008 when I first posted to this blog. People were always talking about blogging and I thought, why not give it a try. Here’s some statistics on it:

Total views: 7,521

Busiest day: 933 — Sunday, August 23, 2009

Posts: 139

Comments: 58

During that time, I created two spin-off blogs for the family: (my mom and sister’s author websites to promote their books).

During this past twelve months, I’ve also:

• created 13 lenses on Squidoo
• written  almost 300 articles for the eHow website
• created 5 books using print-on-demand site Blurb, with several more underway
• posted 28 articles to the Helium website (essays and creative writing)
• added to my poems and essays on the Our Echo website (family memories)

Love This Vintage Photo

My mom turned up this photo of her mother during my recent visit. I’d never seen it before. Wow, it’s hard to imagine my grandmother in the early 1900s on a motorcycle.

Take a look at that bike! I love what my grandmother is wearing. Her name was Ruth Vining and she lived in Tyro, Kansas. To read more about her life, check out my mother’s book, My Flint Hills Childhood: Growing Up in 1930s Kansas. It’s hard to tell is that’s smoke around the back of the motorcycle from the exhaust or just fading or damage to the old photo.

If you’d like to know more about the motorcycle, a reader clued me in that it’s a Flanders 4. With a little internet research, I found an old ad from 1911 that features it.

Here’s a web page I created on Hubpages with more about this motorcycle and photos of other vintage motorcycles.