Greetings & Salutations, Y'all!
Today, Wednesday, March 27, 2024, Southern Fried Common Sense & Stuff has achieved the milestone of over 500,000 Worldwide Views online!
Nearly ten years ago -- in December of 2014 to be exact -- when I started this non-profit personal blog site (then originally named just Southern Fried Common Sense)
I honestly didn't know what to expect.
It began partly as a means to have my voice heard on matters related to
Southern-Confederate historical heritage and other topics related to the
history of my own little corner of Dixie
(the American Southland to all y'all outside of the USA), as well as
indulge in and sharing my favorite personal hobby of amateur astronomy
and night sky photography, as well as travel blogging and
photojournalism.
Although many people here in my country just see my home state
of South Carolina as largely a vacation site (and yes we did have some
excellent beaches here) and certainly Charleston -- one of the oldest
cities in America built by European settlers -- has more than its fair
share of history.
The upstate Piedmont region of South Carolina where I grew up as a Southern boy born on the bicentennial of America's independence and raised in the 1980s and 1990s also has
important history that has helped shaped both Southern and American identity as
a whole in many ways. History that is both good and bad, but certainly worth sharing. I'm proud to call myself Southern and very proud have been born in this part of America.
One of the major goals of Southern Fried Common Sense & Stuff has always been to share that history and its importance in as accurate
and as fairly balanced an properly researched manner as my own humble
skills as a simple, small-town country writer can provide. Judging by some
of the comments I've received over these last nine years, I've done a
pretty good job and I stand by my work.
Since starting this
blog I've also expanded the scope of this blog's content to include
other topics of nostalgic nature and personal stories of my life -- some
of them deeply personal in nature. Some for educational purposes, and
others to share further hobbies of mine, but overall as a means for you,
the reader, to better understand who I am and the personal values that
shape the person writing on this site.
My goal was simply to share my personal love for the small corner of Dixie I was born in, share my sky watching hobbies, talk about the interesting and important local history of my humble little corner of South Carolina and its importance to the American experience, travel and nature photojournalism, and tell some entertaining personal stories -- as well as a few serious topics -- about my youth and current life.
In nearly 10 years and over 700 posts later, I've been amazed by the outpouring of support that I've received from people, not just in my native South Carolina and United States, but from all across this wonderful world we share.
Though the majority of my views come from my fellow Americans (U.S., Canada, Mexico, and other points south) I'm pleased to say that Southern Fried Common Sense has been viewed by people across the oceans from Europe and Asia, to Africa and Australia. From every corner of this planet, on every continent, including someone from the South
Pole at the Amundsen-Scott Antarctic Station
-- literally as far south as it gets! That's pretty outstanding folks!
Not too bad for a currently 47 year-old American-Southern born Gen-Xer who lives along with a cat and spends hours at his computer in his home office in his PJ pants and old rock band t-shirt. Just goes to show that even a humble
writer from a small town in rural South Carolina can provide something
of interest. Y'all have my personal thanks for
taking the time to read and review my work over these last nine years.
Now that we've crossed this outstanding milestone together, the only place to go now is forward. This Southern boy will continue to bring y'all more good content for as long as the Good Lord allows me to and I have the ability to do so.
Once again, I thank each and every one of y'all for making this blog the underground success that it is, and please continue to offer your support and become an official follower of Southern Fried Common Sense & Stuff to receive up-to-date content.
Also comment below to tell me what sort of content you'd love to see more off from this site: history, photojournalism, travel, night sky photography, personal stories, nostalgic movie and television reviews, ect.
God bless y'all and have a wonderful Dixie Day, y'all hear!
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