IF NO ONE READS YOUR BLOG, DOES IT REALLY EXIST? One thing about blogging is how selfish it is. You assume people are genuinely interested in you, what you have to say or what you are interested in. Yeah, yeah - we all want to "educate & enlighten." We also ask our friends, family, coworkers and people we brush on the street to read our blog. We sign them up for blog catalogs, lists, aggregators, Technorati ... ad infinitum. We check our Sitemeters . We cajole people to get on our mailing list or subscribe to our feed. We look to see our latest position on the TTLB Ecosystem . I have been blogging for 4 years. Until this year I was very quiet about it. Just for fun. The majority of my energy went into my children and my anti-abuse work. I didn't want to think about myself. But as I am working on healing from years of mental & emotional abuse - my therapist told me to start taking my strong opinions to the web. I was systematically taught to squelch th...