It's Been A While!

Gentle Readers

I wrote something recently and said to myself, “Say, this would be worth putting onto Chicken Scratch!”  So, the fates brought me back to my blog of yore.  I looked at the date of the last post and my jaw dropped.  “Thursday, March 14, 2019”, it read.

“Has it been that long?” I thought to myself.  How is that possible?  I mean, I’ve been writing… all sorts of things, really!  They just have not made their way here. “Has it really been over a year!”  Yes, it has been.

“Why is that,” you ask?

Well, there are several reasons why it has been a year since my last post.  It could be that Chicken Scratch never really found an audience.  It could be that my content stinks and the writing isn’t any good.  It could be that it is never seen to be read.  It could be that we live in a post-blogger world.  I never felt that the interaction that I had envisioned when I launched this ship back in 2005.  Most of the articles I write now are for social media, where there is an audience, where people interact, and ideas have the possibility of being shared and discussed.  Now I am, certainly, not giving social media the anointing of being the beacon of “the truth” that we have all been waiting for.  No—its user driven, and many of its users haven’t found Jesus or science or don’t believe facts or are just your garden variety, confirmation biased, assholes.  Of course, there are also those who think, who are receptive to new ideas & discussion, those who are open minded.  People those who can empathize, can be kind, can move the world towards—ever so slightly—a better place.  That was always my hope with Chicken Scratch.  After reviewing the blog, I hope that this was usually the case.  Even with the events of 2016—both personal and worldwide and the events right up to today, March 25, 2020 (why hello there COVID-19, pandemic).  Abed and Troy were right—this just may be the Darkest Timeline.

Even though, Chicken Scratch’s author, me—Evil Chicken has been horrible at blogging in the traditional sense, I believe there is still a place for it in this world.  A place to throw up the occasional article, journal entry, or idea.  Those aren’t illegal yet, right, ideas—ideas, I mean?

Well, we shall see what we shall see.

It’s good to see you once again, Gentle Reader.

Let’s see what kind of trouble we can get into…