Monday, January 2, 2023 A Cog in the Blogwheel

Happy new year, friends! Having had a festive respite, it seems meet, right and salutary to begin the blog anew. The title for this post doesn’t actually mean anything – I just liked the sound of it. But looking at it now, I think it would make a good book title, obviously some sort of mystery having to do with the murder of a popular blogger who stumbled into a scandal of some sort. His last post didn’t appear to reference anything out of the ordinary, but a text message to a friend indicated that the post would reveal something important. Now he’s dead and the game is afoot!

Or maybe it could be a fantastical story about a Blogwheel that generates stories that can come true under certain circumstances. The one who holds the cog holds the key to entering the world of the Blogwheel, able to guide and direct the narrative that it creates. When the cog is stolen, the Cog Master must find and secure it before untold mayhem and chaos results.

Or could it be the memoirs of the daughter of a world-renowned blogger? She reflects on what it was like to be a mere cog in the great blog machinery generated by her mother. Longing for the warmth of motherly affection, she had to learn to live as a character in her mother’s blog posts without any real life connection. But one day, the blogwheel stopped turning and things long dormant came to life.

Possibilities abound! Which story would you rather read?

I’m looking forward to another year of writing and I hope you continue to join me. It’s no fun without you.

A random post like this deserves a random photo to go with it, so I give you the very first photo taken on my Nikon in 2023.

Maybe I can work it into my murder mystery.

As the saying goes, I’ll most probably delete this in the morning unless I find a cog in the blogwheel.