Still Not Used To It

I'm still not used to seeing something that I have written come up on google.com.

Right now for suite101.com I'm writing a series on illnesses and the daycare, and I gogles "Daycare Illnesses" while doing research for the second article in the series and I readthe number four post and thought Hmmm, that sounds a lot like what I wrote...wait- duh. At that point I realized it was not Like what I had written, but was in actuality what I had written. I' still beat by daycare.com, babycenter.com, and kidsource.com, but I'm beating childcare.about.com, and ibabydoc.com, which despite the odd name seems that it should have precedence over my article. Haha. My article is the fourth entry on google.com. Okay bragging over.

Really, I don't think that it has sunk into me yet that my dream from the time I could write of being a published writer has really come true-- that people will look to my words for advice and insight and humor. I always say it and it really is true-- that words have power and that we need to be careful how we use them. I think it hasn't really hit me after 6 months of being published (first w/ County Wide News) simply because I somehow imagined that I would be published in book form, so thins seems unreal, even though I get statistics every month of how many thousands of people read what I have written, and even though I knew what the circulation of CWN was. It is still a eventuall dream to have a book-- or more than one :) published, but I think that I need to realy sit back and absorb that I have acheived somethingthat I've wanted for so long. Instead I seem to get focused on deadlines and staff/editor/ceo/other staff intrigue that happens. And serch engine optimization. Always the SEO.