The "Blogging To Share, Connect, Create & Inspire" Story

It was an ordinary day.  Talking with my wife about an issue we had just seen discussed on cable TV.  Story talked about how many Russians may go to work every morning searching online for information that can be used to infiltrate the fiber of our life in the United States as well as other nations.  They search for issues that may be current topics in our social life as well in in our political life.  They set up fake FaceBook pages where they target issues and people who show interest in these issues.  And then...all of a sudden...it hit us!

 "Do you think that's why for the past year or so all those Russians have been reading your blog!" Carol said. "Maybe they read your blog to see what types of issues and things you write about so they can use that against us."  Wow!!  While on vacation two years ago I noticed an extraordinary amount of readers accessing my stories.  On "Blogspot" I can visit a link titled "Audience" which lists pageviews by country.  For days, sometimes weeks, at a time the majority of readers were from Russia.  Not just a hundred or so, but a few thousand viewers were from Russia.  Why?  And then in the spring and summer before our Presidential election, the same thing happened once again.  During the month before our election over 50% of readers on my blog were from Russia.  I asked Carol if she thought I should call the local police department, but after talking about it we decided they couldn't have done anything about it anyway.  Perhaps they were using my blog to learn how to read English!  Must admit I was thrilled to have them read my stories, but they certainly weren't going to learn the English language by reading my stories.  As you may remember I have written quite a few times that I was not an English teacher.  And, just as we had determined that the links that the Russians had to my blog where nothing but a coincidence, Carol reminded me that a few years after I began writing my blog I had a few thousand readers each day for over a week from Germany.  Once again...why?  So, until I have other evidence of wrongdoing, I welcome readers from all over the world.  Pretty neat to see readers from nations and locations that I had never known existed.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.