You may have noticed that I didn’t post an entry yesterday. It was the first time I failed to blog in over three years (November 13 2016 doesn’t count as I blogged but the entry was wiped). I had been pushing myself to see how long I could keep posting a daily entry going, and I’m proud to have kept it up this long, but yesterday I decided it was time to call it quits. I think such challenges are good discipline for a writer, but it had to end some time, and three years isn’t bad. I could have blogged yesterday and kept my run going, of course, but the time had come to loosen up on myself. Continuing to force myself to blog every day would just mean increasingly poor entries, and just posting for the sake of it. Challenge complete, I made the decision to break my chain.

Truth be told, there wasn’t much I wanted to write about yesterday. My parent’s came to visit, ahead of grandma’s funeral next week. It was great to see them, and they are doing well, under the circumstances. It was a nice, peaceful day; I din’t really get the urge to blog. Now I’ve broken my chain, I think I’ll start going a little easier on myself: I still intend to post entries quite regularly, of course, but I think it’ll be a while before I try to break my record of blogging every day for three years.