Readership Map

The map is showing a broad geographical reach for this blog. I hope to keep adding new towns!

 

If you enjoy reading Mama's Applie Pie, please pass the address along to family and friends!

Instant Messaging

I had an idea today that I thought I would try out. I figured I would create an AOL Instant Messager account for the blog. I don't know if any would ever want to chat live, but what the heck.

You can reach me on AIM here: mamasapplepie

Of course, you can still e-mail me: mamasapplepie@gmail.com

Or, if you prefer, I always welcome your comments here on the blog.

Where, oh where, are you tonight?

You may or may not have noticed, but I use SiteMeter to track the number of hits this blog gets. I don't pay for an "upgraded" account with all the bells and whistles, but I do get a listing showing from where people are connecting to the blog. Presumably, this listing is based on the city of each person's Internet Service Provider. It doesn't actually pull your address in some magical way. (You more cautious ones have no need to fear Big Brother on my account.)

 

Here's a map of the cities represented by my readership so far . I'm not recording how many hits come from the each city though.

Welcome.

Thank you for visiting my blog. There's certainly plenty of good stuff to read on the Internet, so I appreciate your time and interest in checking out my contribution to blogosphere.

My plan - as I guess with most bloggers - is to share my take on various issues without, hopefully, just being an echo-chamber for what you may read on other blogs. Yes, I may touch on issues that others are also covering. But, just as hopefully, I would like to offer a different take on things.

(Although, at times, there is just no way to offer a different take. For example, Senator Bishop was really out of bounds trying to KO Senator Barron, even if Barron has earned the disdain of many people. There's really just no other way to cover that story. Although I think, perhaps, I may have a different angle on Barron's recent comments about the skirmish. See the first regular entry for this blog.)

I plan to cover events here in Alabama as well across the nation. Most of the focus will probably be on politics, as with many blogs. But if I see something else that catches my eye, I'll post on that too. I guess I just need some place to vent my ideas when the people around me tire of listening.

As for me, I'm an Alabamian that has made his way to nearly every corner of the state. I've worked with government officials as well with people in the private sector. And I have family from southwest Alabama to east Alabama to north Alabama. So I try to catch the news from all over, from my vantage point in south-central Alabama.

I look forward to sharing with you. And, maybe if things take off, you'll share in return.