It's been a whole month of "The Joy of _________" posting (and titling)... and I have to say that there is, well, some element of joy that comes in actually being able to dedicate this space to other areas of interest!  Themed posting and titling can be fun and stimulating for a time... but after awhile it just starts to feel like a gimmick.

So yes -- I'm glad that I was able to meet the NaBloPoMo challenge to complete an entire month of daily posting (check it out if you don't believe me:  31 posts for the month of November!).  I'm glad that I was able to discover some of the special "Joys of November" in Amsterdam -- and I really do believe that my perspective on this time of the year has been changed (what's especially cool is that I had at least 4 or 5 things in my head that I never got around to pursuing or posting about!).  And I'm glad that they joy of the whole experience was shared with so many others who read along, commented, or tried to keep up the pace with their own blogging.

But I'm also glad that it's over.

I'm guessing that I'll be reverting to my more typical pace of blogging (the average monthly output from the past year has been 17 posts per month -- or slightly more than one post every other day) from here on out.  And -- as much as blogging purists would tell you that you need to maximize your web profile by becoming a perceived expert in a particular niche -- I'm further guessing that I'm going to just go ahead and continue posting about a random collection of anything and everything that comes to my mind:  thoughts and images about my family, my city, my hobbies, my faith, my never-ending journey of self-discovery... all that good stuff.

What were your observations over the last month?  Are you glad -- or sad -- that it's over?  In any event -- ready or not -- here comes life after the "Joys of November"...