Six year blogging anniversary

Image from British Council

My initial foray into blogging was a cooperative effort. Silvia Pandini, a teacher from Brazil, was brushing up her English in my ESL class. "I’ll start a blog if you will," she challenged, and I agreed.

Together, we posted a piece she wrote in Portuguese called "Teachers and Mills." She then translated her work into English, which I polished for clarity and elegance. A few weeks later, after a farewell coffee on Commercial Drive, Silvia returned to Brazil. But the blogging bug had bitten me, and I carried on.

At first occasionally, then weekly and bi-weekly. A couple of times I tried to quit, but whenever I stopped, I missed the opportunity to formulate my passing thoughts in words. For the past three years, this has been more or less a daily discipline. I post on books I've read, and also on non-fiction subjects that require time-consuming research. Meanwhile, I carry on with other writing projects.

Recently, I was about to quit blogging again when something strange happened. For the first time in ages, I went ego-surfing and saw, to my astonishment, that "Carol Tulpar blog" is now a search term. The Google algorithms appear to have noticed me. Does that means I should carry on?