My First Magazine/Softcoverbook

I just received my printed magazine/softcoverbook from Blurb.com, and it looks great and the quality is very good! For a first effort, I have no complaints.

The magazine is called 'My Book of Days this Pandemic Year' and is a compilation of my Facebook posts for the entire year (almost 400 of them). It is different from a Past Book or other Facebook-advertised memory books because those only include the posts with the most number of likes, and you have no control of what is included in or excluded from them.

Based on that, I created my own publication that includes posts of:

our evolving pandemic knowledge;
public health orders;
imaginative ways people entertained themselves and their families while sheltering at home;
my art;
other's art;
silliness;
inspiring photographs;
touching stories;
poetry;
information about disinformation; and,
a host of other valuable and interesting articles, critiques and reviews

It took four long days (and late nights) to design it and when finished--I uploaded it to Blurb for printing. What fun and validation to see the final product after receiving it. All the time involved in putting it together was definitely time well spent!!

Here are some photos from My Book of Days this Pandemic Year:

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