Last night I
accidentally performed a little social media experiment. I posted a blog—nothing
spectacular, just cheeseburger soup (so good on the first cool night, even
though cool hadn’t yet quite hit), some thoughts that struck me in church
yesterday, and comments on a church Connection luncheon we went to. The point was
to connect with other members, and I thought it a great idea. Anyway, today I
did not get one like nor one comment, and I guess I’ve gotten spoiled and used
to feedback.
So I checked. I had
neglected to put the post on Facebook. If you want to read it you can find it at
https://judys-stew.blogspot.com/2019/10/could-fall-really-be-here.html
But it demonstrates to me that a big part of my audience is on Facebook. In
Sisters in Crime and other groups, there’s always debate about the usefulness
of Facebook, but one comforting bit of social media advice I like is to do what
is comfortable for you. So I have given up trying to master Instagram and I don’t
do much other than post on Twitter, but I am really vocal on Facebook—and that
includes occasional advertising in the form of “boosting” posts. So my
experiment kind of confirmed what I do.
Another bit of
cyberspace wisdom I picked up yesterday; two friends said they had tried to order
So Far from Paradise and were told it was unavailable. So I ordered a
free sample as a test—no problem. Then I called Amazon. It seems you cannot
always order all books from an iPhone of iPad app. So my advice to readers: if
you try that and get word the book you want is unavailable, order it from your
computer. As an author, I wonder how many sales lots of us have lost because that
fact isn’t commonly known.
Not much
spectacular today, except that I got a routine dental appointment out of the
way. Dentistry brings out my anxiety, and I tried to explain it to the
hygienist: when I was a young teen, I had lots of cavities (poor enamel
inherited from my dear father, whom I otherwise loved a lot). Our dentist was an
uncle (by adoption if not blood), a taciturn man who scared me. Plus dentistry
sixty-five or so years ago was not as smooth as it is today, and I still have a
real dental phobia. So grateful that Jordan drove me and picked me up, that Stephanie
the hygienist is such a good soul, and that my teeth are good enough the
cleaning was brief, and I got a clean bill of health.
My day ended with
a most pleasant happy hour with friends—one of those small world situations. I
honestly thought we met on Facebook but Mary Kay Hughes tells me years ago she
and her mother came to a reading group I conducted through TCU’s Community
Education programs. But we also have our church and our politics in common,
plus she works with Christian, and her husband proved to share all our
convictions and more knowledge than I had about some of them. An evening of lively
and interesting discussion.
I am heartsick
tonight about withdrawal of troops from Syria and the almost instant bombing by
Turkey, though I don’t think we know the truth of the situation yet. What does
seem clear is that the orange one, he of “great wisdom,” let himself be
hornswoggled again. He has not the faintest idea of the cost in human lives—ours
and Kurdish—of his impulsive acts and lack of negotiating ability. But I won’t
belabor the point—it’s all over the internet, and we will have to let the true
facts sort themselves out. Tonight, my prayers for the Kurdish people and for
our troops in the region.
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