As my brother well knows, I am a little bit obsessed with my blog counter. It tells me where people come from who read my blog. There are no specific names, just places. It also tells me if someone has reached the blog via a search. Since Monday, readers have found their way to Write Thinking by doing these Google or Yahoo searches:

1. Rachael Ray new hairdo
2. Getting over irrational fear of mice
3. Tse coat
4. Colasurdo
5. Michigan Rocks cookies
6. are your goals holding you back
7. Maya Angelou where does she go to write
8. red and white striped fleece clothing
9. i hate being single. i hate going to parties alone. i hate sleeping alone. i hate waking up alone. i hate knowing that every single boring errand i have to do (Note: This is a quote I deplored from the book He’s Just Not That Into You.)
10. how to unstick wooden drawer
11. “you can do it baby, do it tonight”
12. Emily Dickinson I stepped from plank to plank
13. Stephen Shapiro smart goals
14. still i rise Maya Angelou

Geographically, in the same time period, I’ve had readers from:

New Jersey (Hoboken, Jersey City, Brick, Belmar, Linden, Camden, Edison, Morristown, Hillside, Eatontown, Roselle Park, Zarephath, Carteret)
Philadelphia
Germany
Alabama
Turkey
Connecticut
Georgia
North Carolina
California
Virginia
New York (Manhattan, Flushing, Mineola)
Oregon
United Kingdom
Illinois
Singapore
Massachusetts
Norway
Florida
Missouri
Minnesota
Washington, D.C.
Nevada
Colorado
Rhode Island
Washington

I just love the universality of it all.