This is my 500th post! I started blogging in August, 2007 and have written a post every other day since. That seems like a lot, doesn’t it?

The process of documenting your life through digital forums is pretty fascinating to me. My blog writing plus photos, Tweets, Facebook status updates, Goodreads list, Epicurious recipes, Amazon purchases, Pandora favorites, Delicious links, search history and every other digital footprint I have made is out there to be understood. (By the way, some people call all of that your “lifestream“. And I definitely foresee a day when it will all be aggregated and easily searched.) My family (and really whoever wants to) can have a better understanding of who I was and am because of this blog and everything I document. And given the fallibility of memories, it’s a way for me to remember for myself what was on my mind back when I was 27.

I think blogging is a pretty powerful medium. There is a thought process and curation that happens, and I’ve learned a lot about by doing it. Here’s to 500 more!