Archive for May 1st, 2009

Friday Evening Apology

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Well, I blew it.

For the first time since the feature debuted in January 2007, I flaked on the Thursday Morning Riddle. Sure, there was that one time in August 2007 where I knew I’d be away and I posted a riddle-laden puzzle on Wednesday. I also didn’t riddle during my recent blogging hiatus. But those were deliberate. Yesterday, it just slipped my mind.

And it wouldn’t be so bad if the blog were brimming with fresh anagrams, discussion topics, puzzles, and reflections on the teaching of a certain writer whose name I am too ashamed to mention since I also missed blogging on his birthday. But lately, it’s been an all-riddle show, and yesterday it wasn’t even that. My apologies to all of the visitors who were let down. I’m grateful for all of the readers who – with almost unlimited options – choose to visit this site on a regular basis. Even with the lack of activity lately, this site is still one of the top 202,115 blogs on the Internet, and I don’t take that for granted.

I especially want to thank all of the readers who took the time to leave comments like “Hi! It’s good blog!” on this post from March 2008. I appreciate the thought, as well as the links you included. Please don’t take offense that I deleted those comments, but I just haven’t been feeling it lately. It’s not good blog, and it hasn’t been for some time.

So here’s what I’m going to do. I made a commitment to blog every day in November 2008, and I did it. So I now commit to blog every day in May 2009. And yes, this post counts.

The Shakespeare Teacher is in.