It's Been A While...

It's been over 10 years since I added to this 'blog, but it seems like a good way to have a medium through which I can express and document some thoughts while I'm vacationing from Facebook.  Though comments will still be an option, the engagement level of any comment-based dialogue is significantly different here and I think that'll be helpful to disallow anything from happening like it so easily can on other social media platforms.

I've had some clear anxiety about "pulling the plug," even though I'm committed to it.  I have come to rely on Facebook's convenience and the interactions it facilitates between me and so many people who have come to be a part of my life over nearly 59 years of existence in the physical world.  But, that can still happen through Messenger (and likely more meaningfully and intentionally, rather than just out of reactionary convenience), and any "journaling" such as I often turn into Facebook posts can become 'blog entries instead.  For anyone new to this space I created back in 2007, you should be able to look back on any entries that may be of interest to you - perhaps you'll learn more about me and our little family of three than you already knew, including all of the challenges we faced to make that possible!

So this post is just a test, making sure that I still know how to type in a text box provided by a default template.  I'll probably try to share some pictures here as well, and I recall that being a bit more challenging with regard to proper alignment with text and other details that my "graphic designer" brain wants to be a specific way.  But I'll work on it, and I may ask for feedback (as in helpful critique) from anyone who would care to be part of that loop.

"Welcome back, Don!"

"Thank you, Don!"

😁