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R……..READERS!

21 Tuesday Apr 2015

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imageWhere would writers be without readers! We are readers, we want readers, we love readers.

A great perk in blogging is being able to connect instantly with readers all over the world. They can read your work, respond to you, criticize, congratulate, laugh, cry, learn, teach…….all from their home to yours. Fascinating.

I have not been blogging very long and never thought much about who might read my posts. My family, of course. My friends, sure. But……Wow! Readers in more than 50 countries are checking my site!             🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹🇬🇧🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵

I write about all kinds of things, as my blog title indicates. It’s gratifying to know that my Musings are interesting to such a diverse group of readers.  A school student in Angola, for instance, might look in to see what’s on my mind regarding a nifty kitchen gadget I purchased: You Gotta Get One  of These!, July 2014. 20140801-113051-41451456.jpg

Maybe a reader in Italy will read my take on how Chrisopher Columbus is feted in the USA: In Fourteen Hundred Ninety Two, posted in October 2014.

What do readers in Australia, France, England find interesting? Maybe stories about the World Wars and the veterans who fought in them: Giving Thanks and Over There, November 2014. And Comanche Code Talkers:July 2014. image

I wonder if readers in Ecuador or Poland or Greece can relate to my wacky family stories, like O, Day of Labor: August 2014. I’ll bet they can. I’ll bet their families do exactly the same funny things.

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And that’s the point! Here we all are, from every part of this little blue marble planet, writing and reading about all sorts of things and connecting through the air, discovering how we’re the same, how we’re a little different, who I am, who you are…….reaching out and touching each other.

Welcome, readers of the world! Welcome to my world! I hope you will let me know who you are and where you are and what you would like to know more about my little pinpoint of our world. It will be great to ‘meet’ you!

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M……Musings

16 Thursday Apr 2015

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For today’s Challenge Post on M, how about capitalizing on the title of my regular blog: Musings With Marianne?

I chose that title for my blog so I could write about many things: the things I think about, wonder about, know about, want to know about….Muse about. Musing helps me understand things better sometimes, kind of like explaining to myself.

I started Musings just under a year ago, just before heading to France and England to attend the big celebrations of the 70th Anniversary of D-Day, the invasion of Normandy that led to the end of World War II.

I mused on 21st Century travel, from extra vigilant airport security measures, crammed airplane seating, and forking over more money to board before the herd, to the first world problem of packing all the charging devices required to keep all the electronics working. Gotta be plugged in!

I mused on the crowds of people, old and young, celebrating the liberation of Europe from the Nazi terror. All ages, nationalities, sizes, shapes and voices…..one celebration.

I mused about my one and only grandson, a smart, funny young man of many talents who never ceases to amaze, amuse, and instruct me.

I posted Random Musings, collections of thoughts or ideas that popped up here and there; I related stories about my dad’s and my great-uncle’s military experiences in both World Wars; I introduced my family and friends to the Blog World; I lamented my various shortcomings and laughed about them at the same time.

I hope you will check back in my Archives and see some of these posts. I would like to know what you think!

I am now a thoroughly hooked Blogger. A cyber-diarist. I welcome people all over the world to peer into my world. Amazing! Hello, Singapore, Russia, Phillipines, Belgium, Scotland, Ghana! Argentina, Mexico, Canada! Australia! China! Japan! All 50 United States! Great to meet you!

My next regular Musings  post will continue the story of my experiences as a movie extra: So You Want To Be In Movies, Part 4. Maybe I’ll see you on the set! It’s just getting good…….