Where in the World are TGB Readers
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
While prepping guest blogs for publishing during an upcoming trip, I was startled to notice that in addition to many points across the US, several are written by elders resident in Canada, Greece, Australia, Japan and the U.K.
If you have been using the internet for any reasonable length of time, you probably have friends now in faraway places you've never been and may never visit. We become accustomed to all this internationalism, although the time lag can be amusing.
When I'm perusing email with my morning coffee, it is time for Peter Tibbles' dinner in Melbourne - not to mention that his seasons are the reverse of North America's. I never could figure out what day or time it was there when I corresponded with a scientist who was working in Antarctica for a year. And no matter what time it is here in Portland, Maine, it is almost always tomorrow in Japan where Bob Brady (Pure Land Mountain) lives.
I've been thinking about Bob more than usual recently due to squirrels digging in my deck farm. His garden thieves are monkeys. Monkeys! The most exotic animal I've ever seen around my home is a moose who sauntered down my street during the first year I was here. But monkeys - it's like having your own zoo.
I might never have known there are places in the world where monkeys are yard pests if I hadn't started blogging.
Most Time Goes By readers live in the U.S., but some are scattered around the globe too. So I think it would be fun (and a good bit of relief) to ignore, for a day, Republican sniping at one another; what Nancy Pelosi knew about waterboarding and when she knew it; along with whether Republicans will lose what little Latino vote they have if they try to block the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.
Instead, let's give it all a rest and do an informal poll of where we live. There is no special survey page. Just post your city, state or province, and country in the comments. I will then tabulate the responses and have an ordered list with the number of people in each place for us on Friday.
At The Elder Storytelling Place today, Leah Aronoff: And It's Only April.
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Posted by: Suzann | Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 03:33 PM
Seminole, Oklahoma
Posted by: Frank | Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 03:34 PM
Austin, TX
Posted by: mythster | Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 03:52 PM
No duplicates yet? Does that mean something?
Posted by: mythster | Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 03:54 PM
Philadelphia, Pa and Lexington, Ky
Posted by: Judy | Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 04:17 PM
Beltsville, MD, a suburb of Washington, DC
Posted by: Ocean | Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 04:22 PM
Full time on the road. Australia
Posted by: Allan Moult | Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 04:39 PM
Boulder, CO
Posted by: Rita | Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 04:57 PM
You know where I am – Melbourne.
I may your most southerly reader unless you have some in Tasmania or Tierra del Fuego (or the south island of New Zealand, he said as an after-thought. That should get the Kiwi bloggers writing).
Posted by: Peter Tibbles | Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 05:28 PM
Monroe Township, NJ/Boynton Beach, Fla.
Posted by: Mort Reichek | Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 05:53 PM
posted by Angie Singer from Bloomington. mn on May 27 at 7:56 PM
Posted by: Angie Singer | Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 05:57 PM
Yorkville, Illinois
Posted by: victor stott | Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 06:02 PM
Walla Walla, WA
Posted by: Celia | Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 06:03 PM
Los Angeles, CA
Posted by: Cynthia Friedlob | Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 06:30 PM
St Paul, MN
Posted by: Charlotte Dahl | Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 06:38 PM
Punta Banda, Baja CA., Mex.
Posted by: Kay | Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 06:44 PM
Chilliwack, BC, Canada
Posted by: Jacquie | Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 06:47 PM
Hockessin, Delaware - USA
Posted by: Janet | Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 07:09 PM
Minneapolis, MN
Posted by: Joan | Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 07:36 PM
Kenesaw NE
Posted by: Jackie | Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 07:45 PM
Northwest KS, USA
Posted by: la peregrina | Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 07:51 PM
Jasper, Texas
Posted by: LynDel | Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 07:52 PM
San Carlos, CA, USA
Posted by: chrissoup | Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 08:02 PM
Sedona, Arizona
Posted by: Sunny Schlenger | Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 09:19 PM
Royston, Hertfordshire, England
Posted by: Caroline Mathieson | Thursday, 28 May 2009 at 12:22 AM
Narragansett, RI - USA
Posted by: Stephen | Thursday, 28 May 2009 at 05:09 AM
Swannanoa (near Asheville), NC, USA
Posted by: Kay-Sea | Thursday, 28 May 2009 at 05:35 AM
Baltimore MD
Posted by: Nancy B | Thursday, 28 May 2009 at 05:47 AM
Canton, OH USA
Posted by: Kay Dennison | Thursday, 28 May 2009 at 08:05 AM
San Francisco, Ca
Posted by: Nancy | Thursday, 28 May 2009 at 09:53 AM
Oklahoma City OK USA
Posted by: ellen | Thursday, 28 May 2009 at 10:21 AM
dorchester, ma
Posted by: eema | Thursday, 28 May 2009 at 10:42 AM
Crossville (Fairfield Glade), Tennessee, USA
Posted by: Carla | Thursday, 28 May 2009 at 12:47 PM
London, UK
Posted by: Sophy | Thursday, 28 May 2009 at 01:30 PM
Monmouth, Oregon
Posted by: Rain | Thursday, 28 May 2009 at 01:36 PM
Festus, MO (35 mi. south of St. Louis) - USA
Posted by: Audrey Vest | Thursday, 28 May 2009 at 02:08 PM
Heart of the Ozarks, Pomona, Missouri
Posted by: Connie Schachel | Thursday, 28 May 2009 at 03:09 PM
Merrillville, IN
Posted by: Gene Williams | Thursday, 28 May 2009 at 03:41 PM
Reno, Nevada USA
Posted by: Marion Vermazen | Thursday, 28 May 2009 at 05:47 PM
Chiclana de la Frontera, Cadiz Province, Spain
Posted by: Pamela | Thursday, 28 May 2009 at 11:25 PM
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Posted by: Garth | Friday, 29 May 2009 at 03:20 AM
NE Ohio
Posted by: Dee | Friday, 29 May 2009 at 05:57 AM
Worcester, Massachusetts
Posted by: Sophie R. | Friday, 29 May 2009 at 08:43 AM
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Posted by: Cynthia Friedlob | Friday, 29 May 2009 at 07:54 PM
Cowtown! Foat Wuth, Texas (er Fort Worth to those who reside a little further east...*smile*)
Posted by: Cowtown Pattie | Friday, 29 May 2009 at 08:37 PM
Dickson, TN
Posted by: Joy D | Friday, 29 May 2009 at 11:54 PM
Crescent City, Calif....Northwest corner almost to the Oregon stateline...Redwoods meet the sea..
Posted by: Judy W | Saturday, 30 May 2009 at 10:33 AM
Claremont, CA
Posted by: joared | Saturday, 30 May 2009 at 06:15 PM
NSW, Australia
Posted by: lynda | Saturday, 30 May 2009 at 07:51 PM
Boston, MA - USA
Posted by: George | Sunday, 31 May 2009 at 02:00 PM
Bangalore, India
Posted by: Sharath | Tuesday, 02 June 2009 at 12:58 AM
Wilmington,Vermont
Posted by: Paula | Tuesday, 02 June 2009 at 05:13 PM
New York, NY ;)
Posted by: Caren Browning | Thursday, 21 January 2010 at 09:19 AM