The days go by…and although lots of things are happening around here, I have purposely not blogged much about them. I have been thinking (as I do occasionally) about whether it is worth keeping up this blog. As so many others do, I ask myself, why bother? Why do I blog? Are the reasons for starting this back in 2002 still there? What has changed? I blog for the following reasons:

• to record a diary of events or happenings in my life that I can look back on and that helps me to remember the good times and the bad.
• to provide a way to keep family and friends up-to-date with what’s going on
• to comment about or articulate my thoughts on issues that are important to me

There may be other reasons but those three are the main ones. A blog, to me, is most valuable as a series of written snapshots, a sort of photo album in words.