A Dry Spell

As many of you may know, I live and write in the South. We've been deep in drought, if not a recession, for quite some time now, and I think it might have had an adverse impact on my writing as well. My apologies. I've taken a few weeks to regroup and recharge my batteries.
As you know, I focus the material in this fairly new blog on issues pertaining to the over 50 crowd. Maybe my over 60 fatigue would be a fitting subject for a new post here, but I'm too tired to write it at the moment.

Over these last few weeks I've learned a few things. Among them I've learned that: I get paid the same whether I write every day or not at all - nothing; I get just about the same response from the readers of this blog - again, nothing; and perhaps most important of all, I discovered that I write and post here more for my own enjoyment than for yours. Now those may be things that you will find offensive for me to state. I hope not. No offense is intended. But in view of the very limited readership and even more limited response, I have to ask myself why I am doing this at all. Perhaps it is simply because I enjoy the challenge of putting thoughts into fairly coherent form and I still think that writing is an art form worth preserving. People don't write letters any more. They seem to have accepted a lower form of writing called e-mail, and are content to butcher the language there at will. Acceptable form in an e-mail is not a high hurdle.
In fact, grammer and spelling don't seem to have a function at all in some of the ones I receive. I've taken to overlooking my own typos in outgoing e-mail, and that has begun to bother me a bit. So I am going back to my pre-computer, pre-internet, pre-email attempt to write properly in an effort to preserve a bit of self-respect, if not the art form itself.

I do hope you will read something here from time to time that is useful to you in some way. Encouraging at least. Informative would be a wonderful accomplishment. And if you do, won't you please take a moment or two to comment and contribute some original thoughts as well? I've placed upon myself a vague sort of deadline for how much longer I will continue to write and post here, based very loosely upon your response, or lack thereof. I check my stats from time to time and see the number of visitors slowly grow, and I hope to hear from one or two of you.