It's been awhile since I've been here. 

When I stopped writing, I gave up my website because it became too expensive and difficult to carry on and maintain  (new hosts, endless fees, any content additions or changes with a web master, Go Daddy, etc. etc. etc.) and it just didn't seem worthwhile to me anymore. 

Also, I figured if I wanted to broadcast news (aside from Twitter), I could always drop in here.  As it turns out, I couldn't, since Blogspot was no longer supporting my AOL browser and the...