Running out of Blog Posts... Not · 21 February 2026
It seems that I am running out of blog posts. But I am certain that cannot be true. After all, I just write about life. My life really. The good. The bad. And certainly, the embarrassing.
I have been blogging weekly for nearly twenty years. Which is hard to believe in and of itself. I mean really. Most people would have given up by this time. Even with my few faithful readers (both real and imaginary). Or maybe especially since I have so few readers. Even though they are faithful. I guess I am just a glutton for punishment. Or maybe I am just a glutton. (Which is a completely different story.)
I do remember when I started this weekly blog. I was thinking that it would be my path to fame and fortune. At least to fortune. I figured that I could stay under the radar and avoid the fame part. I mean how many authors could anybody really pick out of a lineup anyway? But alas. So far, I have avoided both the fame and the fortune. Not even a little infamy so far. Which I suppose is a good thing.
The funny thing is that regardless of how little fame I have achieved with my far-reaching blog (I actually have had real readers from all over the world) and how few people I have reached with my platform, I still do it. In fact, I still enjoy doing it. It is not just that I still believe I have a duty to put out a blog post each week. It is not even that I still think I have a contract to uphold with my readers and myself. No. The real reason that I keep writing this silly blog is because I still enjoy it. And as I have said before, writing is like breathing for me. If I am not writing six days a week, I feel like I am missing out on an important part, a necessary part, of my life.
I am not sure when this necessity to write hit. If you have read my blog for long, you might know that I started just writing one day a week. I would sit at my computer on a Saturday and pound out a piece, edit it, then, post it. All within an hour or so. It was great. Okay. Well, it was probably not that great. I mean, how much quality writing can you really do in an hour or so? And how well can you edit something you just wrote? I suppose I could go back and see. But it might be best to leave well enough alone.
At any rate.
I do know that there came a time when I had to start writing more than just one day a week. Whether that was just a little while after I started blogging or quite some time, I am not sure. But I do know that my goal of becoming rich and famous for blogging had evaporated by then. I was sure that my posts were going out into the ether never to be seen again. I was also sure that regardless of whether anybody read anything that I had written, I was still accomplishing something. I was still establishing a body of work. And that, at least, was something.
Well, I have probably written too much about writing in this blog and in this particular blog post. But that is okay. I enjoy writing about writing. Even though it is not my favorite subject. Still, I guess it just goes to show that I am not really running out of blog posts. I can still write over five hundred words about nothing in no time flat. And maybe that means something. But if not, that is okay. Because even when I feel like I am running out of blog posts, I just start writing and find out that I am not.
© 2026 Michael T. Miyoshi
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