The Reluctant Fisherman

Some time ago, my brother-in-law urged me to enroll in a website tracking feature sponsored by a search engine. I followed his advice, thinking I’d soon be getting e-mails cataloging the thousands of hits to my site and warning me about bandwidth restrictions. Well, I haven’t received that e-mail yet, but I did receive an e-mail announcing that my website was number 2 on the Yahoo search engine and number 5 on Google (based on a search of websites with the same or similar names).

Again, it’s not much—I mean, the name is somewhat unique—but I diid finally manage to beat out a certain Alaskan fishing retreat with a similar name.

All in all, it’s better than a stick in the eye.

Recently, the editors of Writer’s Digest announced the winners of their 75th Annual Writing Competition. Amazingly, my essay “The Light of Earindel’s Star” finished at 19 out of a field of over 3000 entries. You can see my name, as well as a list of the top 100 finishers, here. No one sent me a check, but I did receive a very nice letter that didn’t contain a single threat.

If you’d like to read the essay, I’ve restored it to it’s original place on my website.

Actually, it’s more like whispering breezes, but there are changes coming to this website. I’ll post more about these changes, and maybe even implement a few, this weekend.