It's not that you can't link back straight from the "Step 2" sidebar; you can. Problem is, the titles are organized on this Step 1 page. I suppose you can take pot luck, browsing dates at random on the drop-down list under Step 2, but wouldn't it be better to have at least an idea of the subject?
The solution, if you care to pursue it, is to look up a title on the list below; note the date; and find that date on the Step 2 list. Granted, a procedure for only the determined. If you are of that small but happy band, thank you.
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I originally added this page to call attention to the earliest posts, because they tell why I started this blog in the first place. There were two reasons (and they're still valid):
- I find it regrettable that the fine old craft of writing has been reduced to a commodity called "content"; and
- I need to troll for freelance writing work.
Posts in the first category take the form of diatribes against "content" and the people who promote it; those in the second are sometimes outright pitches, but are more often just examples of my writing style. I've cataloged those loosely below.
There are among the posts occasional digressions into the subject of language, and instances where I take liberties with ours. Things that may appear to be grammatical errors are those "liberties." Always.
All but one or two posts are written with absolutely no thought to search engine optimization. Any that are are clearly labeled.
However, in December of 2015, only three years after starting, I broke the code for linking back to earlier posts. The links in blue, below will get you to the page you need. However, there can be as many as six or seven posts to a page; to find the particular post you're looking for on that page you may still have to do some scrolling down. It ain't nearly as bad as it used to be, though.
(There's probably a way to make the type in the listing legible, too, but I haven't found that one yet.) Anyway --
Here's the scorecard.
Introducing Myself:
Feb 28 2012 - An Aging Newbie's Introduction to the Online World
Mar 07 2012 - My Introduction to the New Reality
Mar 15 2012 - Introduction to Me
Oct 14 2013 - Old Posts
Dec 13 2015 - Mug Shot
Dec 20 2015 - New Beginnings
Jan 07 2016 - When New Beginnings Get Old
Dec 21 2016 - Ending the Run
Whining:
Apr 13 2012 - Them Cheapo Jobs
Apr 21 2012 - Adulterated Writing
Jun 09 2012 - Them Cheapo Jobs - 2
Nov 01 2015 - LinkedIn, Again
Criticizing:
Apr 05 2012 - An Icon Is Worth 500 Words
Jan 27 2014 - Blog Fodder
Mar 17 2014 - A Look Back at "The Good Old Days"
Apr 15 2014 - Can We Hope "Content" May Yet Be Reconsidered?
Aug 17 2014 - Titular Enlargement
Aug 24 2014 - How Many Tweets Make a Twit?
Aug 31 2014 - LinkedIn
Sep 07 2014 - More Thoughts on LinkedIn
Sep 14 2014 - Still More Thoughts on LinkedIn
Sep 28 2014 - Undue Influence
Oct 12 2014 - (F)lying With Statistics - 1
Oct 19 2014 - (F)lying With Statistics - 2
Nov 02 2014 - Everyone's Entitled
Nov 09 2014 - Shots Rang Out...
Nov 23 2014 - Drive, Pivot, Curate
Mar 01 2015 - Local TV
Apr 12 2015 - Twitter, Again
May 03 2015 - Genealogy
Jul 05 2015 - Transparency
Jul 19 2015 - Die Gedankenleiter
Aug 30 2015 - A Good Word Revived
Oct 04 2015 - Emotion and B2B Marketing
Jan 10 2016 - Leafblowers
Feb 21 2016 - Scammers
May 01 2016 - Strugglin' with Some Barbecue
Pontificating:
Mar 23 2012 - The Trouble With Acronyms
Jun 23 2014 - Rethinking "Genre"
Oct 26 2014 - Such Language...!
Dec 21 2014 - When I Edited Engineers - 1
Jan 04 2015 - The Missing Ingredient
Feb 01 2015 - When I Edited Engineers - 2
Feb 22 2015 - When I Edited Engineers - 3
May 31 2015 - Zounds!
Jul 29 2015 - A Kind Word for Euphemisms
Aug 02 2015 - Acronyms Gone Wild (AGW)
Aug 23 2015 - Market Jargon
Sep 06 2015 - GrammarDoesn't Matter
Mar 27 2016 - Election Rhetoric
May 08 2016 -Three Things I Would Advise LinkedIn To Do
Fulminating:
Jan 18 2014 - Push Comes to Shove
Jun 26 2014 - The Copyscape Obsession
Dec 07 2014 - "Thought Leaders"
Dec 14 2014 - More Views on LinkedIn
(on More Views on LinkedIn)
Jan 11 2015 - Personhood
Feb 08 2015 - The New Marketing - 1
Feb 15 2015 - The New Marketing - 2
Mar 15 2015 - The Old Marketing
Apr 05 2015 - The New Marketing - 3
May 24 2015 - Intrusion Marketing
May 29 2016 - "Native Advertising" -1
Jun 05 2016 - "Native Advertising" - 2
Reminiscing:
Jul 27 2014 - Y2K! Y2K!
Aug 10 2014 - The "Middie" Project
Sep 21 2014 - Solidarity Forever
Dec 28 2014 - Beginnings
Aug 09 2015 - The L.A. Phil Plays Okinawa
Sep 20 2015 - New York, New York
Dec 06 2015 - Smiff and Dale
Mar 13 2016 - Age Switch
Rambling:
Apr 28 2012 - Is This a Great Language, or What?
Jun 16 2012 - Some Free Association
Jan 12 2014 - Revisit
Jan 16 2014 - Flogging the Novel
Feb 01 2014 - A Belated Discovery
Jul 03 2014 - Studying a Language
Nov 16 2014 - Crime Doesn't Pay
Jan 19 2015 - Damn! Missed My Own Deadline
Jan 25 2015 - Quiet
Mar 08 2015 - The Joke
Mar 22 2015 - Conversation
Apr 19 2015 - Voice
Apr 26 2015 - Texas Book Expository
May 10 2015 - News Story
May 17 2015 - Seniors 3, Coyotes 1
Jun 28 2015 - A How-To-Write Post
Jul 12 2015 - A Nibble on the Novel
Sep 13 2015 - Flogging the Novel - 2
Sep 27 2015 - The Compound
Oct 11 2015 - Young Tree, Old Gardeners
Oct 25 2015 - Death of a Novel, Maybe
Nov 08 2015 - The Novel Resurrected, Maybe
Nov 15 2015 - A Gentle Leg-Pull
Nov 22 2015 - I Publish Electronically
Nov 29 2015 - Squirrels
Jan 03 2016 - Random Images
Jan 17 2016 - Poncho
Feb 14 2016 - Farming
Mar 06 2016 - Cat on the Desk
Mar 20 2016 - Forgetting
Apr 03 2016 - Placeholder
Apr 10 2016 - Recovery
Apr 17 2016 - Lottery
Apr 24 2016 - A Hundred and Ten Blog Posts
May 15 2016 - Benches and Why I Like Them
May 22 2016 - Benched
Profiling, sort of:
Oct 18 2015 - Profiles and Dumb Questions
Jun 07 2015 - D+25,932
Jun 14 2015 - The War
Jun 21 2015 - Wild Bill and Ken
Aug 16 2015 - Another WWII Guy
Dec 27 2015 - Palm Trees and Edmund
Jan 24 2016 - Russ
Jan 31 2016 - Luke
Selling:
Mar 31 2012 - Before There Was the Blog, There Was the Newsletter
Oct 05 2014 - Let Me Count the Ways...
Nov 30 2014 - Commercial Break (shows rates)
Mar 29 2015 - My SEO Blog Post
