Was It Something I Said?

While I stood at the kitchen sink washing breakfast dishes Thursday morning I think I heard familiar words coming from the radio playing across the room.

If I heard correctly, a section from my blog was being read on the air.

How odd.

The radio station does a segment called Heroes & Zeros contrasting acts of conspicuous bravery and goodness with acts of slime and stupidity.

One of the good things told about on Thursday morning was the wonderful response of staff, customers, and rescue personnel to the heart attack suffered by the manager of Gorgi’s BBQ. I’m pretty sure the radio announcer actually read some quotes from my Blog posting for July 29th , “One Thousand And One…”.

Of course, having the water running and my own hearing loss made me miss the beginning of the segment, so I can’t be positive, but it appears they were actually reading portions of that Blog entry.

Hearing my own words quoted over the radio behind me felt so strange.

Flattering too.

That’s a real ego builder.

But, when there’s an ego builder, an ego deflater is sure to follow:

It being the start of the month, yesterday I checked the Webalizer software to look at my site statistics.

According to that, readership dropped from an average of 715 readers a day in June to 460 readers per day in July.

Since I started posting my journal entries on-line, readership has grown every month until now. The site drew 21,479 visits in June, but dropped down to 14,281 in July.

Now, I appreciate each one of you who bothers to read my blog, your interest builds me up and your comments encourage me. You always give me a lift.

Thank you.

But, I can’t help but wonder about this abrupt drop in readership.

Have I chased than many people off?

Have I offended so many readers that they left in droves?

Was it something I said?