The Never Give Up blog is six years old.
I floated the idea in January of 2011 with friends and social media connections about starting a little personal blog. I thought, among other things, that it might be useful for the promotion of my (then still fairly new) book Never Give Up: My Life and God's Mercy (which is still a good read, and you can order it HERE).
Six years later, the blog is much, much longer than the book (which had a terrific editor, whereas here we basically shoot from the hip). But it continues to be a worthwhile project, at least for me (it is, as I have remarked before, my writing "workshop"). It's also interesting for a few other folks too, from time to time, I would like to think. (?)
I really should compile some "greatest hits" and work them up into a book.
Here is the first blog post, six years ago. The quotation is still one of my favorites:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPA4V9Si0ONGg_wMDCWPj1Xv_mD_EBvAmDsS-BJ33FioATx02mGc6S-11TkpFnjY4WNlBM6zwTJRj4RsxUpQQBbJkjz9W3fT7wnqg-SgrO1OBNvyhyu7Avw_9eooId5AkOE4Zq7RlcmaU/s640/01b.jpg)
I floated the idea in January of 2011 with friends and social media connections about starting a little personal blog. I thought, among other things, that it might be useful for the promotion of my (then still fairly new) book Never Give Up: My Life and God's Mercy (which is still a good read, and you can order it HERE).
Six years later, the blog is much, much longer than the book (which had a terrific editor, whereas here we basically shoot from the hip). But it continues to be a worthwhile project, at least for me (it is, as I have remarked before, my writing "workshop"). It's also interesting for a few other folks too, from time to time, I would like to think. (?)
I really should compile some "greatest hits" and work them up into a book.
Here is the first blog post, six years ago. The quotation is still one of my favorites:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPA4V9Si0ONGg_wMDCWPj1Xv_mD_EBvAmDsS-BJ33FioATx02mGc6S-11TkpFnjY4WNlBM6zwTJRj4RsxUpQQBbJkjz9W3fT7wnqg-SgrO1OBNvyhyu7Avw_9eooId5AkOE4Zq7RlcmaU/s640/01b.jpg)