Bloggin’ Ain’t Easy

As I sit here early on this Monday afternoon, I have realized that I have not posted anything in the past week.  It’s a great example of the fact that this blogging thing?  It ain’t easy!

I love writing, and it has really gotten me through a lot over the last year.  It has been an outlet for me to share my ideas, and it has allowed me to vent out a lot of my frustrations both with my job and with the field in general.  My ideas for what I write though come from a lot of different places:

1.  What I see that is going well — I constantly read about other services, and due to my position, I have an insider view into what is going on with the service that I work for.  Best practices are something that we all must understand and embrace if we are going to take EMS to the next level, and their stories need to be told.

2.  What I see that is not going well — I had someone ask me a question about one of my blog posts once.  They thought that based on what I had written, my service had a PIO.  Well, sadly, we do not.  I see a great need for one, as well as a great need to tackle other challenges both locally and nationally.  Not everything is all “puppy dogs and butterflies” in EMS, and just as the good needs to be talked about, so does the bad.

3.  Past experiences — There is always time to reminisce about the good ole days, and there are a lot of reasons to do it.  It lets us learn from our mistakes, and sometimes it’s a great way to put a smile on someone’s face.  Much like the fire service, there is a certain degree of tradition built into the field.  We are much younger than the fire service, but there are still lots of stories to be told.

4.  Moments of inspiration — Take a look at my post entitled Camaraderie.  I wrote that whole thing while sitting in a bar having breakfast.  There were lots of topics in my head that morning that I wanted to tackle, but it just felt like the right time and place to share the story of O’Brien’s Pub, and what it meant to some of the EMTs and Paramedics that drank from its pint glasses on so many occasions.

Just because I am not writing here, that does not mean I am not writing.  It has been a busy couple of weeks with some major announcements just over the horizon from the team at the First Responders Network.  Stay tuned to my blog and my colleague’s blogs for more on that.

This has been quite the year for me though.  I’ve crossed my 100th post, and I have kept up with my goal of getting out about two posts a week.  The words though do not always just flow from my fingers on to the interwebs so fluidly.  This blogging thing?  It ain’t easy.

2 comments

  1. Hear, hear. While my own blogging goals and inspirations are different, I find that the posts ebb and flow. It’s funny how it gets into your blood isn’t it?

  2. If it was easy anybody could do it. Thanks for keeping on keeping on and congratulations on 100 posts.