1000 Blog Posts

So...this is blog post 1000. Crazy to think and yet at the same time I'm pretty late to the game for someone who started blogging in September of 2005. A quick look of others who I know started blogs around that same time. Dean Shareski is at 2800+ blog posts and Clarence Fisher is 3100 and counting. Both making this 1000th blog post look like nothing!

I still remember setting up this blog in my computer lab in Shanghai. I downloaded WordPress and followed the directions to install it on the little server I was running at the time. I remember coming to the page that asked to name the blog and not knowing what to call it. It's not something you think about usually until you are faced with it. So I looked around the room and there in the corner was "The Thinking Stick" a wooden bat my friend had given me and that I used when teaching. Mr. U was always known for walking around the room with "The Thinking Stick" when we were doing some really deep thinking.

So that's how this blog got its name. If I knew that day that my professional life would forever be changed would I name it something else? Absolutely! But you don't know.....you don't know if anyone is going to read your blog. Even now some 9 years later I don't know if anyone reads this. The difference is I blog for me now, for my thoughts, for my own reflection and allow myself to think through things and to share my own learning with anyone that happens upon it.

So 1000 blog posts and probably the turning point for me was this blog post here. I still go back and read it every once and awhile just to remind myself of sitting on the couch and writing that one....a moment for sure.

Not that I have this out of the way.....I can go back to blogging about stuff that actually matters