As Long As I Still Have My Biggest Fan

So, yes I am attempting to write a three minute fiction for submission to NPR's contest.
Funny, I ask Ross to read it, critique it, and give me his honest opinion.  Then when he does, I get all pissy about it.  "Whadda mean, you don't get it?" "Give me that red pen."
Rewrite number three.
"Okay, read it again."
I can see him hesitating.
"No, no.  I mean it.  I want the truth.  Be brutal.  If you dare (said under my breath.)
He says, "Why don't you sleep on it.  Let it rest over night."
I agree, that's what I should do.

A Lesson Learned
I have had an embarrassing blogging "moment".   About a month ago, my blogger stats suddenly shot up to nearly triple what they had been.  Of course even at triple, it was still not a big number, but three times more is three times more.
Boy, I thought, I guess my blogging has gotten three times better.
Then a few days ago, the numbers  dropped to lower than they were before they had tripled.
I wondered what I had done wrong.  Was it that piece about Dancing With The Stars?  I knew I shouldn't have done that piece.
But after my initial reaction, I felt kind of happy with my new, lower than my old, stats.   I felt that my blog was back to being mine again.
Out of curiosity, though,  I googled: "why have my blogger stats fluctuated so dramatically?"
The answer is something called "referrer spam".
When I saw my stats spiking, I had noticed an unfamiliar link in the traffic source.
Wanting to know what the link was I clicked on it.
After reading the article on "referrer spam, clicking on an unfamiliar link is apparently a big no-no. It's what the referrer spammer is hoping for.   I am not even going to mention the site here, for fear of encouraging more of the referrer spam.
So at first I was happy that there were others, besides my biggest fan, Ross, who read my blog.  Then I got carried away with myself and my new stats.  After the stats went back down, I was disappointed and felt a sense of failure or maybe I should say non-success.  And finally I am back to being happy with my little blog and those who read it besides my biggest fan, Ross. :)

I have created a page for Anna's Diary.  It can be found under the Tab titled Anna's Diary.

I have posted all of the entries to date there, starting with January 1, 1929.

Here is today's entry from Anna's diary:
Sunday March 24 1929
Palm Sunday
Went to Grandma M. for dinner.  Mary, Tom & children there.  Grandma nor Grandpa did not come home. [I think she refers to her son's grandmother as Grandma M.  In the last sentence I believe she is talking about her grandparents.] With Edythe in country.  Back to 360 where Jewel was being engaged with big dinner.
[Jewel is Anna's sister]