On the Web Again. November 27th 2025


 Well it's been a while.  Almost half a year and for that I am truly sorry.  Truth is my blog seemed to go the way of the Bay.   There is a bevy of reasons that I haven't been keeping up on the blog front.  Well, excuses really.   But instead of giving a long long list, why don't I just try to do the honest thing and tell the truth.  

When I started writing a blog, I basically did it pour moi.  I just liked to sit down and rant a little about the things in the world I loved, and didn't love so much.  To recognize some of the people in my life who have done great things large and small, famous and ignored.  To vent a little about the loneliness of being a liberal thinker in a solidly conservative environment.   It was therapy.   I discovered I loved writing and it gave me a safe place to do it.  

What happened way back when was I somehow developed a following.   People actually read my stuff and I shamelessly began to enjoy the limited attention it was getting.   And then my blog was purchased by a european company called blogspot.  And although they were very efficient at charging me more for my space,  I could not access it.  I couldn't contact anyone in the company.  I lost all my articles.  

I have a friend who is an I.T. guy.  He worked very hard for me but Blogspot was in my past.  So I ended up here.  Blogger.com.  It is a good place to land.  It has auto correct.  It doesn't charge me anything, and it is as accessible as any page on the internet.  It just didn't come with the 500 or so strangers who followed my old page.  And there was no way I could advertise my move.  

So, why should all of that matter?  Well it shouldn't.  Plain and simple my ego got in the way.  And for that?  I am extremely embarrassed.  It never ceases to amaze me how we are all so sensitive on some level.  Although I am not sure this a "we" moment.   It's time to be a grown up again.  

Christmas is coming.  We decorate the house today.  It is officially the Holiday season now,  and my inner Christmas can no longer be harnessed.  The lights, and music and oh so bad for you food along with the nuts and nogs and so on.   And I will do better.  Much better in the days and weeks to come.   

Let me be first to say Happy Holidays.   Merry Christmas is coming.

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