I’ve visited your site often since I found it, and have wondered why you haven’t taken advantage of the means to monetize your blog through Google, Amazon, or a small number of successful on-line models.

You live in a van. I’m disabled, yet I make a fairly good income with AdSense and affiliate programs.

Your writing is top-notch, and it speaks to the soul. You should reconsider monetizing your blog, or perhaps make a topical essay site on tightly-focussed niche themes.
–Rick

I’ve looked in some of those monitizing models before, when the site was young with little traffic and lofty expectations. But reality sunk in when I realized just how much traffic I’d need to effective spend my time setting up these various schemes.

I have thought about it though and will perhaps bug you in the future for some assistance in wiring together the bits that needs to be placed. My traffic is getting better albeit slowly. And now with the chillier days I’ll be spending more time “indoors” and paying attention to the site. Ideally this will help traffic all the more as I’ve not been posting regularly for some time now.

Part of the hesitation is that I can actually meter out the time to pay ratio of “real world” writing projects as I have professionally worked as a writer before. And last time I did that it was $16 per hour. One thing I do need to keep in mind though is that setting this blog up, the loading of the borrowed server space and mucking around with PHP and whatnot was very time consuming–but educational too. So if I could think to myself, “Oh, this is a good entry, with the google hits I should make X number of dollars from it.” Then I would be very keen indeed on monitization.