Last week I got the following email from Google.

Apparently a picture I took of a scone and a latte at Spyhouse Coffee in Minneapolis over five years ago has been viewed now by 80,000 people. Who knew?

When I went to the link to see other photos I may have posted on Google and forgotten about, I found that there was only one other, of another coffee shop, this one in St. Paul. It was also posted in 2019.

I started thinking about 80,000 views and how impressive that really is. How excited would I be if 80,000 people read a poem or short story I have written?

Obviously I would be ecstatic and want to celebrate. So this weekend, I will be going to a new coffee shop and celebrating finally becoming an “influencer.”