You like me. You really like me. Even as I type that, I can’t help hearing Jim Carrey’s voice a la Stanley Ipkis a la The Mask. That’s a great movie, but I seriously digress.

I was taught to say thank you and to always write thank you notes whenever someone gave me a gift. So here goes:

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

You read my little blogs from the very beginning, even the ones I wrote at 2 a.m. and the ones where I indulged in a little TMI and the ones I evidently forgot to spell-check.

You told me how much you enjoyed my posts and I was invariably surprised to find out it was you that was reading them. It meant a lot (and still does).

It’s been 4 1/2 years and almost 1,600 posts and it has never not been worth it. I would have written all these even if they only had one person reading them (me). It still would have been so worth it, if only for the catharsis and the practice of writing and learning how to continue to improve how I express my thoughts. And I am still learning.

So thank you yet again. Maybe what I write won’t help every single person out there, but will speak to one person and inspire that person not to give up. Or maybe even they will be inspired to write their own blog. Who knows?

I know that Jon Acuff probably gets 45,000 views on one of his blogs. Probably before lunch. But to me that means that a LOT of you took time that could have been spent elsewhere reading my words that came from my heart. I will always be thankful for that and for you. You rock!