An amazing news story was recently posted about oldest blogger at the age of 108 passed away. I now believe I could beat this record one day, but it will take me just a little over 62 years to do it. I have confidence that this record is reachable. God bless Olive for sharing her thoughts with many of us internet bloggers. Now God has a new blogger in heaven!
SYDNEY, Australia – A 108-year-old Australian woman who was promoted as the world’s oldest blogger has died two weeks after making her last post about “singing a happy song,” her great-grand son and her online forum said.
Olive Riley wrote 74 entries in her blogs, firstly http://www.allaboutolive.com.au and later http://worldsoldestblogger.blogspot.com. A friend introduced Riley to blogging early in 2007, and was hooked.
Riley “passed away peacefully on Saturday, July 12,” a posting on her Web site said. No cause of death was given. “She will be mourned by thousands of Internet friends and hundreds of descendants and other relatives.”
In her last entry, on June 26, Riley thanked supporters for “a whole swag of e-mails and comments from my Internet friends” and described meeting a new friend in the bed next to her.
Wow. 108! I wish I could get my grandma involved in blogging. Then she’d finally have a medium to vent, and there’s probably some other old ladies out there who could relate to her rants.
I am sure they have loads of stories to share, and that my friend is a lot of history.