Looking back. . .

This meager enterprise began as a hobby, perhaps the chance to vent, and, just maybe, to address something with words semi-profound.  Of course, there has been more of the former than the latter.  I wish it were the other way around.

Some stats. . .

• The average day between 1,000 and 1,500 people tune into the blog. . .
• My big scores have been on topics like the shortage of organists (70,000 read that one) and first communion instruction (nearly 30,000 looked at that). . .
• For 2017, some 10,000 folks found the Roman appointment of a pro-LBGTQ bishop interesting. . .
• In June of 2016 2,500 people a day visited the blog -- a score not repeated since in a month. . .
• More than 2 Million readers are from the USA but second on the list, and a surprise, are the 100K from Russia (then follows Canada and the UK and France. . . who knew so many folks in Russia and France were interested in a little Lutheran blog of dubious value!). . .
• What I found most curious is that the majority of you use Chrome to find your way here, followed by Internet Explorer and Firefox. . .
• Three times the number of visitors use a Windows platform as use an Apple one. . .
• Most find me through Google but almost as many through Facebook (is someone posting my stuff there???). . .
• I am heading in on 3 Million total readers (though only 226 now follow the blog). . .

Thanks for tuning in and I can promise you I have more rambling pastoral thoughts that will meander from my mind to the blog at some point in the next months and year. . . I cannot vouch for the depth of the thinking or the wisdom, but it has and continues to be a fun hobby.  God bless you and have a great New Year.