Same here…there is no way I’d be up every night writing instead of sleeping if my blog wasn’t public. It’s also been stimulating me to do more photography and get more creative with it.
I do a paleo/primal diet recipe blog, complete with terrible iPhone pictures of food.
I have a blog wherein I mostly reblog other ppl but will blurt out an opinion on occasion. Perhaps regarding Justin Bieber.
Suggestion: expand to include One Direction.
Even as a kid? I kept one from the fifth grade through college! Boy is is it an embarrassing experience to read through some of that stuff. I was so smug and self-important! Unlike now. 
I had to check out your blog just to find out what a paleo/primal diet was! Ha! Nice site…it made me hungry!
I’m always amazed by people like you! I have never been able to keep a journal for more than a few days. Routine isn’t my strong point…I tend to function in a more chaotic style. Mind you, having kids changed that to an extent. Maybe that’s why I have kept my blog going for a whole 3 weeks now!
You made mofongo sound good … now THAT’S creative writing!
Well, looking at your blog, I noticed you did not use keywords. Laying a few keywords in your posts might drive more traffic to you blog, people can’t read your blog if they can’t find it. Frex, with your target shooting posts, use generic terms like “target shooting” but also the specific models of weapons you use. Also, the phrase “liberal with a gun” and “liberal” “gun culture” might drive visitors to your posts. Nothing wrong with your writing, you should be getting visitors.
I thought your analysis of the fat consumption study was really sharp and thorough, all your points were well made. And you are right, leaving comments turned off is annoying to many readers … the Internet is by definition a two-way medium. Frex, if it weren’t for the message board, The Straight Dope would be a relative ghost town.
Got me a art Tumblr. I’m more visual than wordy.
I just received an email asking about purchasing use of some of my photos. Hmmm…now that’s interesting, the site has been up 3 weeks and might already make me some money…
Wow Latimera, that’s fantastic! And don’t be too impressed by my dedication. I am a writer by profession after all. Fish gotta swim, writers gotta write! 
I have my blog set to disable comments on posts after a month, just because I find that at that point pretty much all new comments are spam. Although Wordpress does do a pretty good job of filtering out most of the spam comments, enough get through to make it a pain in the ass if I don’t set my comments up this way.
Well yay for you!
… and bugs gotta do one disgusting thing after another!
What are you using to block spam? I’d like to take a look if you don’t mind posting or PM’ing a link.
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback.
Like I said, I’m a bit of a perfectionist, so I do try to make everything I post professional-level. That’s part of why I don’t post more often; it takes me a long time to write, revise, and cite everything for those kinds of pieces.
Regarding comments, well, I’m a bit of an asshole on that issue. I don’t want to moderate comments. I want to write. I have so little time to write already that if I deal with comments I won’t have time to do any writing on the blog at all.
If you want to comment, I think you should write your own blog post and link to my post, post it on Facebook, tweet it, or share and comment on your preferred social site of choice. If you’re not willing to make the minimal commitment of time to do any of those things, then I’m not really all that concerned about what you think. I’m not willing to take time and effort away from the things I consider important (writing, wife, kid, job) to facilitate your laziness.
All the big kids have blogs, so as far as I’m concerned that’s the forum people should use for responding in depth. Social media like Facebook and Twitter can be used to make the kind of brief comments that usually show up on blog comments. If people want me to read it, I’ve got an email contact on the page. The higher barrier for entry keeps me from having to read stuff like, “yr n @$$whol3 & i think u stink,” as an intentional bonus.
It’s not like I don’t want to hear from people who read my blog — I think it would be great if people read and discussed my posts — I just think that there are already enough ways to do that. Besides, commenting on your blog or another outlet is a good way to bring readers to both our sites in a way that posting comments on one of our blog pages wouldn’t.
I guess that is a legitimate issue. Strangely, I have very little problem with spam comments on my blog … I get one about once every two or three months. I don’t get a lot of non-spam comment either, I think because of that “secretive and grabby” approach that a lot of guys take to adult content.
That’s astonishing and it makes me wonder if perhaps the comments are simply being filtered out for you at some point in the process. I was under the impression that blog comment spam was pretty much an unavoidable scourge.
My Wordpress installation uses Akismet for spam filtering. It’s really good, and only lets through about 1/20 of spams or so.