"It was a cold wintry day when I brought my children to live in rural West Virginia. The farmhouse was one hundred years old, there was already snow on the ground, and the heat was sparse-—as was the insulation. The floors weren’t even, either. My then-twelve-year-old son walked in the door and said, “You’ve brought us to this slanted little house to die." Keep reading our story....
kj says:
Hi Suzanne, I am new to this intriguing website. But I’ve just spent 2hrs. hitting the ‘previous blog’ button trying to get back to your very first blog. I’ve gone as far back as May 2005. Is there a way I can just start from your beginning and read each successive blog? Did you live in Mount Airy N.C.? My H&R block lady is from there and still has lots of family there. Your blog is the first thing I do each morning. Sometimes as early as 3 a.m. Looks like you made the move to W.V. on Sept. 5th. Right? Your blogs have come a long way from when you started blogging.
KJ
On May 30, 2011 at 7:58 am
Suzanne McMinn says:
kj, the first couple years of my blog are very different from my blog today. This used to be my romance writer website and my blog was mainly for promoting my romance novels. (I don’t write romances anymore.) I re-launched the site as Chickens in the Road in December 2007. (It used to be suzannemcminn.com when it was my romance writer site but I later changed the url to chickensintheroad.com — suzannemcminn.com still works, though, comes to here.) So, anyway, I don’t think you will enjoy my earlier posts the same way as they are very different. I started my blog in December 2004. It was on a different blogging platform and when I switched it over to WordPress in 2005, I never did move all the posts over. I’m not sure how far back it goes, probably somewhere in early 2005. You’re probably pretty close to where it starts, at least as far as where I moved those early posts over.
Okay, here for you! I used my admin to find the earliest post that still exists:
https://chickensintheroad.com/daily-dribble/kari-laywell/
On May 30, 2011 at 8:07 am