Pleased nineteenth KERFDay!
August thirty first marks 19 years of steady running a blog! I began this weblog in my twenties, out of a wierd mixture of curiosity and creativity.
Nineteen years is a very long time to maintain exhibiting up in a single place, and someplace alongside the best way it become a operating document of my entire grownup life. That’s really kinda cool after I give it some thought! Once I learn older posts, I don’t even acknowledge the lady (woman?) within the images. In fact I bear in mind moments from these days, however all of them really feel like a dream. I believe a few of you will have higher recollections of my life than I do! This area has held each model of me, and I thanks for cheering me on from afar.
By The Numbers
At 10 years in, I had 6,844 posts. At present that quantity is hovering round 8,177! A couple of extra numbers that stopped me in my tracks:
- Someplace north of 383,000 feedback left on this weblog since day one
- 6 homes, and plenty of Dwelling Neat Dwelling posts!
- 2 start tales, which have been a few of my most considered posts
- 431 journey posts, that are my favorites to put in writing!
- 3 Wholesome Residing Summits, born out of wanting to fulfill you all in particular person. Plus many extra weblog occasions!
Friendship (noun, pronounced /?frend???p/)
The state of being buddies based mostly on mutual affection, esteem, belief, and help.
Even supposing I haven’t met a lot of you in actual life, I really feel your vitality day by day after I learn feedback and DMs. And after I do get the prospect to say hello in actual life, I do know we’re already buddies. I want there have been a better option to collect as a bunch (which is precisely how the Wholesome Residing Summit was born!) You’ve gotten grown up with me, and boy have we gone by means of many phases collectively.
There are feedback I nonetheless take into consideration, like when a few of you will have written that sharing considered one of my tales (start, separation, well being) straight influenced your life. That’s my why.
This was my precise license plate in 2013!
KERF = Kath Embraces Actual Friendships
I really admire your loyalty, enthusiasm, and kindness over the 19 (!) years that so a lot of you will have been constantly studying.
The OG KERF Emblem!
I now preserve hair provides on this bowl!
My grandfather cherished his KERF sweatshirt!
Reader Questions
I put a query field on Instagram for an “Ask Me Something.” Right here have been among the questions I obtained:
What do you miss in regards to the peak HLB (wholesome dwelling weblog) days?
The whole lot! I cherished that my solely focus was publishing posts and the standard didn’t matter – photos, captions, finished! I cherished that everybody appeared to have a weblog so there was a lot connectedness. Again when individuals really left feedback on blogs, that they had hyperlinks to their blogs and you might go see who was behind the remark (normally). I cherished the Wholesome Residing Summits and getting collectively in actual life and the opposite weblog conferences from the time (BlogHer, Foodbuzz). It was only a actually enjoyable time! And nobody took it too severely.
Why do you assume you’re nonetheless impressed to weblog all these years later?
To be fully trustworthy, the earnings. No less than on the degree, depth, and tempo I’ve been going for 19 years. As I share beneath, I don’t assume I’ll ever chilly turkey cease. But when or after I’m doing it only for enjoyable, I might most likely simply do journey and the occasional life recap and name it a day 🙂
What do you miss about having a Nice Harvest?
Clearly all of the free bread! And the Savannah bars. We used to make such good sandwiches. I hardly ever make sandwiches at dwelling now. I can nonetheless go purchase bread, however it’s not the identical.
What would you inform your self 19 years in the past, realizing what you already know now?
Work smarter, not tougher. I attempt to be strategic, however I’m solely wanting a month forward. I want I had spent extra time learning the business and making an attempt to be forward of the curve as an alternative of following it.
Do you will have a favourite publish of all time?
Ahhh such an ideal query! The primary one which popped into my thoughts was this publish the place I completed my dietetic internship. I simply bear in mind the RELIEF I felt of being finished!! I additionally love that each of my start tales are preserved in such element. I do return and skim them every now and then. There are lots of extra – plenty of my journey posts!
How is your new regular going? Any hobbies or journey within the works?
New regular is nice. I’m obsessive about my new home and so glad I made a decision to go for it! I really like the vibe, pure gentle, and neighborhood. I’ve been really studying piano through the Merely Piano app, which has been actually enjoyable. And journey – sure – I’m going to Paris in 2 weeks with a few buddies!!!
What’s the very best factor that’s occurred out of your weblog? And the worst?
One other nice query! The perfect factor is that it has allowed me to have a versatile, work-from-home-on-my-own-terms life-style for nearly all the 19 years. I at all times needed to have the ability to be dwelling as wanted for my kids, and adaptability is considered one of my high life values on the whole. I’m so grateful. The worst is straightforward: all of the judgment that comes from sharing your life on-line. That has ebbed and flowed, however it’s been the largest supply of stress / frustration from running a blog.
Suppose you’ll nonetheless be running a blog one other 19 years?
See beneath! However the brief reply is: most likely, however as a part out.
What’s Subsequent?
When individuals ask me about my weblog, I describe it as a bell curve. I believe it peaked across the time when Mazen was born by way of public curiosity. Nevertheless it’s nonetheless chugging together with respectable visitors, good earnings through advertisements and partnerships, and plenty of objective for my life. I’ve no intention of writing a farewell publish, and plan to put in writing by means of 12 months 20! I do assume I’m going to downshift some within the coming years, maybe publishing posts much less typically and solely writing about subjects that actually carry me pleasure, even when which means fewer posts monthly. I waffle forwards and backwards between desirous to develop and begin new ventures and doubling down on what has labored effectively for the final 5-10 years and striving for simplicity above all else. I modify my thoughts each week in that sense.
I wish to say thanks to all of you, as a result of with out you there could be no KERF! I’m humbled that you’re all nonetheless right here, and in addition so very, very grateful.
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