Thank you to everyone who took the time to complete the reader survey last weekend. The results were interesting. I’ll highlight the most helpful things I learned. 

I rounded some of these numbers and am not including every percentage if they were small. So that’s why the numbers won’t usually add up to 100%

Age

This is interesting because my readership used to be quite a bit older than me. (I’ve always been old soul.) Now it is more my age or younger. 

• 44% of readers are in their 40s.
• 31% are in their 50s
• 19% in their 60s

How Long Have You Been Reading

• 15% a year or less
• 19% 1-2 years
• 25% 2-5 years
• 25% 5+ years 
• 13% of you have been reading since before Caroline was born! Wow!

How You Found My Website

Lots of variety here. The biggest percentages were the following. It was telling that any form of search or the like was almost none. 

• 31% It’s been so long I don’t remember
• 25% Divine intervention (I love this answer!)
• 19% Link from another website 

Topics That Interest You the Most

I admit this one surprised me in multiple ways.

88%

• Cozy and Simple Living
• Current Events 

81%

• Life Changes as Women Get Older

75%

• Questioning the Narrative
• Faithful Christian Living in Difficult Times 

69%

• Homemaking

63%

• Christian Faith (General)

56%

• Christian Issues and Doctrine
• Eschatology
• Grandmacore
• Books

50% 

• Introverts
• Retirement

Everything else got less than 50%. That includes:

• Homeschooling
• Gracious Christian Parenting
• Gifted/2e
• Learning Printables
• Unit Studies & Themes 
• And so on

So this has given me a lot to think about.

The “Life Changes as Women Get Older” is something I’ve barely started writing about. But I threw it in there as an option at the last minute since I think that is a topic I could enjoy exploring. 

This kind of confirms my time writing about Homeschooling and Gifted/2e will probably come to an end over the next year. There’s lots I want to write about now that we’re almost done, but beyond that I can’t imagine they would be something I would continue to write about all the time. I’m trying to figure out what to do with all that content. 

“Current Events” scoring so high honestly surprised me. That and “Cozy & Simple Living” were running at 100% for a while. I was half hoping that no one would pick “Current Events” so I would have a reason to stop writing about it. LOL! Instead, it’s one of the topics the most committed readers most wanted. That’s fine. It’s good to know. 

So this has given me plenty of things to think about not just here but also with Substack and YouTube (audio only). I really want to avoid controversial topics on other platforms because I just don’t want to deal with the idiots.

But these top-scoring topics really do form a type of core for here. They are the areas I am most interested in as I move forward to the next phase of my life. 

• Cozy and Simple Living
• Current Events 
• Life Changes as Women Get Older
• Questioning the Narrative
• Faithful Christian Living in Difficult Times 
• Homemaking
• Christian Faith (General)
• Christian Issues and Doctrine
• Eschatology
• Grandmacore
• Books

If you have any suggestions for how I could use YouTube, feel free to leave a comment. I have a design for the videos, but have held off starting because I didn’t have the time or energy. I also don’t want to start with one area and then realize it was a mistake for the long-term. I was ready to start recording a bunch of homeschooling related topics, but didn’t. 

I am also rethinking Substack. I loaded 55 posts on there but haven’t added any more since then (January 1). I’m not sure I want to do controversial topics on there, especially as a more conservative American and Christian on a platform with loads of people on the Left. Even with the Christians on there, my theology about so many topics has moved more and more out of the mainstream. I don’t want to spend time arguing or defending my beliefs about non-salvation issues. I’m wondering if trying to be an uplifting and cozy spot on there might be more productive. Not sure. I have lots of content in that area I could copy over there, but I’m not sure it’s worth the time. 

And time is something I don’t have a lot of right now and won’t until the school year is done. 

Anyway, thank you for reading to the end of my ramblings here. I appreciate you!