Call off the search parties. Cancel the APB’s. I’m not missing or dead. And I certainly haven’t been on any sort of a vacation.

I was just too darn busy to blog. Oh, come on. It’s August. It’s hot. I’m on deadline. I’ve got plenty of excuses. I know some of you make blogging an everyday part of your routine and I applaud you (and secretly curse you). But I wonder how you can feed this blog beast so often. I just can’t keep up.

I suppose I could do better if I thought more about my blog in the car or jotted down notes of what to write while at my desk or in the grocery check out line or while doing my laundry. Typically, I’m thinking more about stories for future issues or what I have to do just to get through today’s deadlines and I’m focused on making sure the magazine comes out on time.

And when I make a conscious effort to think about parts of stories or conversations for the blog, my efforts are often thwarted. It usually goes something like this: I have an extremely fascinating conversation with someone. They tell me something very interesting. I can’t wait to share the information and think it would make great reading in the blog. Then, at the end of our talk they inevitably say, “But don’t write anything about this in the blog.” Ugh. Then they write about it in their blog. Gee thanks.

I promise that one of my new priorities for the rest of the year will be to update the blog more. I also swear that we are getting new blogging software very soon (fingers crossed) and that we will be able once again to have comments and a much more interesting dialog. That’s the best part of the blogging - the dialog.

lisap@revenuetoday.com