NWN AT 50K

Sometime late last Sunday afternoon, the hit counter for New World Notes crossed the 50,000 mark. Thank you, whoever you were, for making that weekend trip to NWN, and making the meter go to five and four zeroes. (Yes yes, I know "hits" aren't necessarily the same as "unique visitors", but then again, I'm not sure how Typepad tabulates their hits. And in any case, work with me here, people!)

New World Notes began its life as a full-fledged blog on January 29 of this year, with an entry on an in-world celebration of (and a subsequent argument inspired by) Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Since then, there's been stories on memorials to a deceased father and to deceased soldiers, of soldiers who survived and thrived, here and over there; of surgeries dreaded and celebrated; on the politics of sitting and the standing of politics; of the dead who rate us and the futurists who never finish tomorrow; of seven games made and played; of emigres from old worlds to new worlds; of grand fancy dress balls and wedding parties planned, crashed, and performed in church; of other services performed in other churches; of going to school, and having the school brought to us; of giving it away for the good of all and coming out to play. And not to forget, of great expeditions that go on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and maybe, yet again, on.