Ideal for singalongs at nursing homes, senior residences or just at your own home. Bound in a loose-leaf binder of durable vinyl, unsnaps for access to pages. (To see a photo of the book, click 
Say goodbye to Thursday blogs
To make more time for other personal matters, I’ve decided to trim back our twice-weekly blogging schedule, eliminating Thursday posts in favor of Sundays only.
We’ll still post as many new offerings in Works. Instead of one new chapter of serialized book per blog entry, we’ll now post two new chapters on Sundays. And keep you posted on whatever literary matters come our way.
Over the past two years, Sunday has proved to be our best readership day. Thursday readership also has been OK, but the difficulty of posting twice a week instead of once is that a week doesn’t easily divide into two. So, in order to get two equal periods per week, each of 3½ days, I’ve been posting just after midnight Thursday and just after noon Sunday. That Thursday post has been a bear.
Another difficulty is that while 3½ days is plenty of time to write a post, much of the rest of that period is spent thinking about what to write about, not to mention reading our colleagues on our blogroll, formatting whatever new book chapters we are serializing and, as is my wont, generally lollygagging around.
So what has happened is that when the rest of my life gets in the way, I get way behind on my blogroll reading, formatting and thinking — and spending more time at this computer than I would like.
I retired four years ago from a desk job, and for the past two years, I seem to have developed another one.
Walking has long been my preferred form of exercise, not just for the physical benefits but also for the time it gives me to think, to reflect on life in general and mine in particular. But even though a treadmill sits in the same room with this computer, I don’t spend enough time on it — or walking outdoors.
Finally, playing guitar at Woodstock earlier this month has made me realize I’m not playing as much as I would like any more. During the first two years of my retirement, I was playing more than our present schedule of once a week at a senior citizen residence near our home. Sometimes with Bonnie and her parents, sometimes alone, I used to visit other senior homes in our area to lead singalongs or maybe just to play the guitar or the piano in the background.
I’d like to get off my butt and do more of that. So I’ll see you next Sunday.
– Sid Leavitt
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August 17, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Totally understandable, and completely deserved.
Hearty thanks for all of the hard work you do here, Sid, and for the support you’ve given, and continue to give, to so many of us.
August 17, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Thanks, R.J. I’m especially anxious to play more senior citizen homes. They’re great audiences, and I enjoy it as much as they do. At one time, Bonnie’s parents and I were playing two or three homes a week. Although both Glenn and Virginia are in their 80s, they said they’re ready to roll again. And Bonnie will be retiring one of these days, so our little band may be at full strength (such as it is) for these extra sessions.
When I started doing this — lord, it’s been 16 years now — I said I would continue playing at these senior residences until they wouldn’t let me out.
August 24, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Enjoy your summer, Sid! Why post when you can be outside enjoying yourself? It’s difficult to be online during this season — just reading blogs can be a chore. And I don’t regularly visit everyone on my blogroll. I don’t even regularly visit my own blog.
It’s interesting about Sunday being your biggest day for readership. My posts tend to be random. Sometimes daily, sometimes weekly. Weekdays, weekends. Morning, afternoon, evening. Often weekdays are best for my Small & Big blog. But then the next month it’ll be a Saturday night. Having a regular blogging schedule is something I’ve strived for but … as you can tell, it ain’t happening. (My other, bigger dream is that I’ve got three weeks’ worth of posts in the hopper, waiting to go.) It’s useful knowing what other bloggers have found to be true.
August 24, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Your blogging schedule at Small & Big may be irregular, P.L., but, damn, it’s always worth reading.
Thanks.