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Technology...I Guess I'm Not as Savvy as I Thought

 I feel terrible. My technological ability is not as advanced as I thought. I have let many readers down, but don't give up on me...read on. When I posted my blog onto FB, many of you were so kind to comment that you had actually read it! However, you had to tell me through a comment on FB or a personal text message, because you unsuccessfully tried to post a comment to the actual blog. I seriously have no idea why! Blogspot seems so easy to use. But as I dug deeper, I realized that I forgot to click on the button that allows for all comments. If you want to test my theory that I fixed it, try writing a comment to this post. Crossing my fingers that it works. Now, as a writer, that is a VERY scary thing...to open yourself up to public scrutiny. But if I'm willing to post on an open forum, like the internet (and you can't get much more open than that!), then I have to be willing to accept criticism. However, I hope that most comments will be about the content or about reader...

Beginning Again in my 40s

 "So, here's the thing..." I used to follow this woman who wrote a blog with that exact name. I loved it and wish I had thought of it first. It was back in the early to mid-2000s when blogs were "the thing". Now, it's all about pictures on Instagram and Facebook (for my generation) or Snapchat (for my kids' generation) or blogs that have turned into podcasts. I know she was a writer and moved somewhere up north where it snowed. But when I googled it, someone else with a podcast of the same name came up--I don't think they are from the same person. I hope that she is living a good life wherever she may be. I also used to follow a blog written by a woman who was a recovering alcoholic who would recount her days of struggle and stories of her past. I don't know why I read that--the only thing we had in common were young children and those struggles of motherhood. But she was such a great writer! I was always riveted by what revelations she had that...