Pages for the rest of my poetry books are now live. As I mentioned in my previous update, you will now see a Books link in the main navigation menu of the site, with a dropdown menu: The Lilac Years 8: Eight-word Poems This Is Not the Book That Will Save Your Life …but for [...]
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Small update 7/30/2018
It’s too hot today to do much of anything else, so I have begun the task of reviving and re-creating the pages for my books. You will see a Books link in the main navigation menu, with a dropdown menu with links to the books I have added so far: 8: Eight-word Poems This Is [...]
Master of my domain
As of a couple of minutes ago, ordinaryaveragethoughts.com is now the URL for my blog. I suppose now I should start adding other stuff to the site. That may take a while. For now, enjoy the shorter address. (5 July 2018)
Small update
I figured I'd better do it while I have the cash: I have upgraded to a paid WordPress plan. The most obvious difference should be the absence of ads on my blog pages (which I never see, since I use an ad-blocker). They're pretty obnoxious when I view the blog on my phone, so I [...]
10k
Generally, I don’t focus on statistics or popularity, but I thought this was worth sharing: (17 November 2017)
State of the Art(ist), August 2017
It has been a while since I last posted something that wasn’t either a poem, a ‘love note’ entry, or somehow not directly related to my self-publishing activity (the ‘Resistance Song of the Day’ notwithstanding). So, here goes… I have yet to get a decent handle on 2017, even though it is two-thirds over. Although [...]
Milestone?
Most of the time, I do not pay much attention to site statistics. But this seems significant enough to make note of it. Total blog views, 2015: 5,056 Total blog views, January–May 2017: 5,057 (1 June 2017)
Blog Update 5/24/16
I have updated my blog; I am now using WordPress’ Affinity theme. It looks like I may have the option to use it for my website as well—but I did just change that yesterday, so I am not sure I want to do that just yet. Anyway, I think this new theme will make [...]
A wordy post about my approach to poetry
Poetry I had something of an epiphany last weekend: I largely prefer hearing poetry recited to actually reading it. I’m surprised I didn’t figure this out sooner. After all, I have been going to poetry readings for about a year now—but I own very few books of poetry, and rarely seek it out online. Most [...]
500
When I wasn’t looking, the number of people following this blog went over 500. So here’s Lush: (17 August 2015)
Ordinary Average Thoughts 