Searching my archives, I came across my first post. Checking the date, I realised that OMG! It’s my 2nd Blogiversary!

Two years!

And how apt that in this week I also managed to gather my 2000th follower!

That’s an average of 1000 Peeps clicking follow each year!

Little did I know that when I tapped out that first post, 2 years ago, how much this whole WP community would come to mean to me!

I have ended up with an amazing network of international friends, and my blogily, those ‘sistas from other mistas’, and ‘bruthas from other muthas’!

(I even rewrote a classic, We Are Blogily, and sang it, here!)

I have been encouraged to stretch my creativity. This resulted in me releasing my first poetry anthology, Poetic Rituals, available on Amazon.

Just click here…

myBook.to/PoeticRITUals

So many amazing reviews from you all!

I’ve learned new skills, IT based and otherwise! I take part in regular challenges, I write, unabashed, about things that strike a chord.

And the best thing?

You read them!

Earlier this year I was even blessed to have come second in the Best Blog Award at the Annual Bloggers Bash Awards in London!

And I was able to meet a whole host of like-minded bloggers who were just as lovely in person as they were online!

The encouragement we get from each other to write, to push ourselves, is just phenomenal!

I am often asked why my blog is called But I Smile Anyway…Well this little quote sums it up perfectly. I hope my blog is a ray of positivity in an increasingly negative world. Everything seems a little easier to handle when you have a smile on your face!

I want to take this time to say “Thank You!” to each and every one of you that has followed my journey. I hope to be here for many more years to come, and hopefully finish at least one fiction project too!

Cheers to the first 2 years, cheers to the weekend, and here’s to many more smiley years to come!