Is blogging habitual?

For me?  Not sure.  I've dabbled with blogs now for over three years.  My first blog used Blogger in the Summer of 2003.  I used it mainly as a travelogue to share my intership experiences with my family and friends, and to geek out while documenting my impression of living abroad in a interesting place, Brazil.

Then about a year later, I helped outfit my dad with a blog to satisfy his writer's itch.  A gift he had, and made a living from, but since entering retirement, needed an outlet, an audience, and his Typepad blog proved just the thing.  For two great years he wrote quillnews, and boy was he terrific.  It inspired me to help him tweak and adopt the latest layout tricks of the trade, as well as establish a professional looking site that developed a loyal readership, and created a few homerun articles that to this day still appear high on the Google search results.  His punditry was balanced with a good natured edge and savvy that ended up being a unique and welcome voice to many readers.  My father passed away earlier this year, but a big part of his legacy was his written works.  I continue to host quillnews, and one day may decide to contribute to it.

For now, I will press forward on Wordpress.  Again to satiate my inner geek, but also to see what I can make of this newfangled blogging apparatus.  So I hop out of the navigator seat, and back into the pilot's roost.  Perhaps some years gone by and some challenges that stretch out before me will inpire my blogging effort to be less geek and get to chic.