Oh, how cool is this... I just noticed that my visitor counter is about to hit has hit has passed 50,000!
Not too shabby, huh?
I started this blog in February 2005 and in July 2005 I started using the sitemeter to track traffic. In my first month of tracking, I had less than 600 visitors total. Now I'm averaging over 6,000 a month, and traffic has been doubling roughly every few months. It's really gratifying that so many people are interested in what goes on around here, because you're not all just wandering in here by mistake through some rogue Google search gone bad. At least a few of you must be coming back on purpose, other than my friends and family (and I certainly don't have 50,000 of those). So that is the coolest part of all, realizing that some readers like The Bold Soul enough to return frequently once they discover it. That's how strangers become friends.
So thanks to everyone who stumbled in here, unaware... and then decided to come back for more. And tell your friends. And link to me from your own blogs and websites. And comment once in awhile to let me know you're out there.
Because -- waxing philosophical for a moment -- just like the "if a tree falls in the woods and there's no one around to hear it" question, is a writer really a writer if there's no one around to read what she writes?
Merci mille fois, mes amis!
