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A Year Without Candy

Day 54: Magical Thinking, the Donate Button and the Boston Red Sox

Date: 2010.04.21 | Category: Uncategorized | Tags:

So yesterday I put a DONATE button on this blog. It’s a common widget on a lot of blogs. It basically says, hey nobody is paying me to write this content so can you give me something to offset my costs?

To someone who has been financially independent since the age of 21 and never relied on anyone for money, the DONATE button on blogs seemed pathetic and desperate. I mean, why write a blog if you have to beg for money?

Then yesterday, out of the blue, it seemed like a good idea. Am I desperate for money? No? But do I get paid for writing this blog? No.

I have Google AdSense ads on my blog to monetize it the way a lot of bloggers do. However, you need a TON of pageviews per day to make anything more than enough money to go to McDonald’s once a month.

So I put a DONATE button on the blog. Then it occurred to me: Who’s to say someone, a secret admirer of the blog, would make a huge donation. Hopefully anonymously. Just because he or she could. Just for the hell of it.

How fun would that be to get a big fat donation courtesy of PayPal?

See, that’s my magical thinking at work. People have mocked my magical thinking before -- most notably in 2004 when my hometown team, the Boston Red Sox, won the World Series for the first time in 86 years.

Curse of the Bambino? What curse? We were just pacing ourselves!

The American League Championship series that year was enough of a nail-biter. The Sox lost the first three games against the Yankees. At that specific point, it looked totally hopeless. The Bosox had choked again.

However, I had this strange feeling. It was so bad, the Sox losing the first three games of the ALCS, it looked as if they’d lose fast and limp away -- the World Series win yet again an impossible dream.

But because it was so hopeless, my instinct was this was the very thing the Sox needed: to be nailed to the wall with all odds against them. I don’t know about you but that’s the kind of stress and pressure I enjoy. It brings out the best in me. I think it’s an Irish quality -- and you know Boston is a Irish town.

So I told my friend Gale the Dodger fan in LA, “You know I think the Sox are going to win this and then they’re going to go on to the World Series and win that.”

Her scorn was palpable, even over the telephone.

“That’s your magical thinking again,” she said.

P.S. The Sox came from behind in the ninth inning of Game 4 of the playoffs and played an incredible 14 innings before winning the pennant and going to the World Series.

I could barely sleep at night it was so exciting. I even drafted all my California friends into being Red Sox fans -- at least in 2004.

P.P.S. Then the Red Sox won the World Series in four straight innings, knocking off the Cardinals in a 1-2-3-4 punch.

Gale called seconds after the Red Sox won the World Series for the first time in 1986. She called me “The Oracle” this time and said she was bowing down to the phone.

I believe in magical thinking.

I think someone will donate $100,000 to this blog. Why not? Life is a crazy adventure.

Never give up. Or so Winston Churchill told us.

Go Red Sox. I love you.

2 Responses to “Day 54: Magical Thinking, the Donate Button and the Boston Red Sox”

Michelle 10/04/22 01:45

Quoting Winnie? Now you’re in my territory my friend. “…we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender…” I feel positively inspired … to have another slice of pizza.
Connie Bennett 10/04/22 23:48

Dana, you are such a darn clever writer! Amazing how you pull together so many different ideas into a cohesive, compelling blog post.

So, in that vein, let me put on my magical thinking cap vis a vis your Year Without Candy: I see a day where candies hold absolutely NO allure for you at all!!

The fact that you’ve stayed away so long is downright amazing — hurrah for you! Now, I’d like for you to not have visions of deliberate slipping. I think that’s definitely possible! Although that recent post had me chuckling quite a bit.

And, I hope a bunch of people donate a lot of money to you for writing this smart, always-entertaining blog. Hmm. Maybe I should post a “Donate” button on my Sugar Shock Blog, too?