{"id":3675,"date":"2012-09-12T22:20:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T05:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2012-09-12T22:20:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T05:20:41","slug":"a-measure-of-psychological-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2012\/09\/12\/a-measure-of-psychological-health\/","title":{"rendered":"A measure of psychological health"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have discovered that the Archive link sidebar in WordPress to be an interesting and accurate self-history of sorts. It shows the last six years, broken down by month with a number in parenthesis indicating how many blog posts I wrote during that ~30 day period. Some are in the high twenties. Those are usually months I was happy, excited about life, loving to learn, etc. Even if I wasn’t reading anything particularly good during those times, other thoughts just seemed to spill over regardless.<\/p>\n

The bad months? When work is hard or being married is hard or being a father is hard or when adopting foreign child with special needs that can’t speak English is hard – on those months I can’ bring myself to write hardly a thing. My head can barely make it through the day. Ugg. What kind of month it was is marked right there on my blog, serving as a sort of psychological health history.<\/p>\n

June 2008 – Moving the family to a new house, 3 posts.
\nJune 2009 – Settled down, only 2 kids, read Humphrey Carpenter’s Inklings bio and more, 56 posts! (Yeah!)<\/p>\n

October 2010 – Must have blotted whatever happened this month out of my memory, no idea, 1 post.
\nJanuary 2011 – Wrote a bunch of poems out of nowhere, read some fantastic stuff, 18 posts!<\/p>\n

March 2011 – African red tape purgatory, adoption paperwork hell, 6 posts.
\nOctober 2011 – Traveling to Ethiopia, 25 posts!<\/p>\n

April 2012 – Child surgeries and attachment challenges, 1 post! (yikes)
\nJuly 2012 – 9 posts, things must be getting better<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A curious metric. Who knows what blogging will look like after 20 years of this? You may be able to learn something by looking at others’ archive counters as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have discovered that the Archive link sidebar in WordPress to be an interesting and accurate self-history of sorts. It shows the last six years, broken down by month with a number in parenthesis indicating how many blog posts I wrote during that ~30 day period. Some are in the high twenties. Those are usually … <\/p>\n

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