Year in Roundup 2022: Part II

Over the past few years, Interminable Rambling has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting a couple of years ago, I added Medium to the blog, posting both here and on my my own site interminablerambling.com. I did this to, among other things, increase readership, and it has done just that. From about 2018 to 2020, the main website had about 40–45k views per year. That number skyrocketed in 2021 to 70k views. This year, the main site has had 80k views, and the Medium site has had, at least according to the stats I see, about on average 2k views per month. That means that this year my sites have had around 100k views, and probably more. That’s not a large number, all things considered, but that constant increase in views is what keeps me going when I inevitably think, “Should I keep doing this?” In the last post, I wrote about two of my favorite posts from this past year, and today I want to write about two more as I close out 2022.

Death is Love

I started this blog as a way to maintain some sort of writing schedule, to practice what I tell students in class, “Write some everyday.” As well, I started it to think about and explore different things that interest me professionally, writing about pedagogy, books I’ve been reading, and so forth. All of my writing is personal because while I’m writing about different things and I am also exploring myself and my beliefs; however…