As We Enter 2025: Happy Blogging Anniversary to Me

Happy Blogging Anniversary to Me!
It will be twenty years "next year" since I started blogging in 2005. I chose the topic of wine. It went from a hobby to a profession. In 2018, I closed the Wild Walla Walla Wine Woman blog with no regrets. I met some wonderful people and celebrities and learned much about the wine industry. However, when things became no longer "fun," and work politics started creeping in, I knew it was time to move on. I wanted to leave while I still loved and had gratitude for the industry. 

Today, I have put the wine away, but I'm still blogging. I now enjoy blogging about cooking, collecting, decorating, and cleaning up tiny dog poo. People aren't reading blogs like they used to. In fact, even Facebook, a hybrid between a traditional blog and a social network, is a mini-blogging platform and is also losing customers. We now prefer looking at pictures and short videos of cats and reels of strangers dancing to the Dirty Dancing soundtrack in their dining rooms. 

Me? Blogging? I can't break the habit. Besides loving the platform and the challenge of occasionally tweaking some HTML code, I will continue even if I am the only one left to read my words. 

Do I have any goals for 2025? No, not really. I will continue what I did in 2023 and 2024: write when I want to, put in some sky and road miles, work on home updating projects, and hang out with people who make me laugh and whom I can learn from. 

How will I celebrate the New Year? Just like I did in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. I will start New Year's Eve with the two Andys - Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper as they hang out at Times Square. I will have the best seat in the house. My choice of drink to bring in the New Year with a Tylenol chaser? Bonne Année!