We stopped blowing our horn about milestones at my home blog, Kiko’s House, a few years ago. For one thing, it was a tad narcissistic considering that some current affairs blogs have more visitors before breakfast on a slow day than we’ve had in our entire lifetime. And while history has a really annoying way of repeating itself, there also has been a certain redundancy to many of our posts.
All that noted, 2015 is a milestone of a sort. We’re closing in on 10,000 posts and 1.5 million visitors, among them some charter readers who are still with us, including the little old lady from southeastern England who sees UFOs from her loo. (Thank you so much for your loyalty, Tillie.) These visitors hail from 200 or so countries, including Milwaukee.
Visitors seldom leave comments, although there have been conspicuous exceptions. A post on the epidemic of cancers in American golden retrievers has received over 200 comments — an extraordinary number for a smallish blog. This particular post has become somewhat of a Wailing Wall for people who have lost their beloved dogs to cancer and have reached out to share their experiences.
Kiko’s House has been photograph oriented from the jump, and we’ve run over 800 standalone images from photographers the world over in addition to images embedded in posts. But the photo above shot by Doug Mills of The New York Times in Chester, Pennsylvania on the 2008 presidential campaign trail rises above the rest because it was and remains a striking metaphor for Barack Obama’s travails — and America’s, as well — an all too frequent topic here.
Herewith our 10 favorite posts from the last decade. Click on the date to link to the post.