The Best of ____ Well, Not Quite

I've been writing this blog for over three years now and there are over 600 blog entries here. I have several stat counters and other gizmos to tell me what people are reading when they come here and it is sort of amazing to me which blogs from the past three years get the most attention. You never know what people will go looking for on the internet. So, as I was reading through my stats recently I decided to post a list, in no particular order, of the most popular:

1. The New Neighbor: Back in December 2006 I wrote a blog when Jay Severin bought a house in Manchester by the Sea. In all honesty I've considered deleting this blog just because it gets so much traffic. WHO CARES about this guy??? Obviously a lot of people!

2. Mending the Nets: I originally posted this in 2005 and then repeated it in April of this year. It still gets lots of hits. I'm happy --- I think it was a good one.

3. Gone Hollywood Ga-Ga: I posted this in January of this year because I was getting phone calls from someone talking about The Old Mermaid's Tale being optioned for a movie. That never went very far but this post gets a lot of hits mostly, I suspect, because of the photo of Anthony Delon. Okay, ladies, here are two more. Drool away:

4. Sense of Place: I wrote this in October 2007 about Boston College and the images I was relying on to help me write about it. It still gets hits every day.

5. The Allure of the Beast: This is from August 2007. It is about the allure of sexy but dangerous men. It also gets hits on a daily basis. Seems I have some naughty readers out there!

6. Puttanesca and My Invented Heritage: I suspect this just gets hit because of the recipe for puttanesca but it is popular!

7. Hancock's Angel: I'm really pleased that as many people keep reading this one about Walker Hancock and his gorgeous angel!

8. Mermaid Tales: This was a little treatise from 2005 on the lure of the mermaid in literature.

9. Jean Lafitte: My Invented Grandfather: I'm happy that people still visit this one because I loved writing it. It still makes me think of my father and laugh.

10. Lobstermen Are Hot: An article in The New Yorker Magazine inspired this one.

So that's it for now. I hope I can write another 10 memorable blogs in the course of the next 600!

Thanks for reading.