The Mystic Review turned 15 years old yesterday August 22nd and received its millionth page view last week. Like most bloggers these days, I get a fair amount of bot traffic, but it’s still a milestone I never expected to see.
I am less active here than I once was, as I've been focusing on fiction writing and sharing it in my writing blog (Writing After Dark). But I still post monthly and am still fascinated by supernatural themes.
Right now I'm working on a dream memoir based on the Spirit Dream and the spiritual journey that followed—and maybe most importantly where I ended up.
I chronicled that journey here—and even when I faltered or got things wrong, the blog and those who read it were there for me. So it seems right to share a bit of the memoir in The Mystic Review as I go along.
I talk about The Mystic Review a lot in the memoir and I don't think I can overstate how important writing here has been for me. The Spirit Dream saved me after personal tragedy, yes, but when I hit a wall two years later, it was the blog helped me find my way through. And that happened repeatedly over the last decade and a half.
Learning is its own reward but not always and knowing that people were interested in what I had to say meant more than I can say. So I want to thank everyone who has followed and supported me through all the ups and downs.
And I want to wish a happy belated birthday to my old friend, the blog.
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You can read the intro to the Spirit Dream here: The Story of a Dream
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