People warned me that writing a blog would take a lot of time.
I actually started this
blog on an earlier Katrina anniversary, when-like the parents of a newborn child-we were still counting the passage of time by months. Sometimes I still lay awake at night and torture myself with conjured images of water lapping at my bookcases… Imagine a house shattered by wind and water.
There is a sense of pride, a strength that comes from rebuilding our own house. While subsequent museum staff have kept the project going, the community had connected with me as the focal point, and there has not been a new person who has been able to comparably rally the community to high levels of activity.
Blogging in many ways is a community effort, and having other people who are in many ways your competition as "friends", give you both the chance to offer reciprocal links, or guest postings, and these are strong ways to build quality backlinks and generate higher levels of traf***.