Random thoughts, occasional kudos and complaints, of a neophyte blogger

Blog number one:  I am not experienced in blogging nor in sharing my every passing thought or opinion on anything (except, perhaps, in some of my poems) .  having almost always been rather guarded (and, indeed, rather secretive) about most "personal" information  Perhaps this blog will now, if I choose to use it as an occasional confessional, will serve the purpose well enough -- and it should, at least, allow me to cmmunicate freely.. 

I would like to thank all those who have read and commented on my posted poems and encourage them to continue to do so, with particular attention to the older posting which appear on "pages" after the first page of the listings of my poems on poetrysoup.....it is an understanable but unfortunate consequence of listing poems in the order of newest poems first that the older postings, which were posted, many times, in groupings of several per day, do not receive the number of "visits" that later posts of fewer numbers of poems in a day may receve.                             

I would also like to encourage "soupers" to read and to comment on the four short stories I have posted in the new short story area of poetrysoup.  My eyesight has been deteriorating (I am awaiting being scheduled for cataract surgery) so I have not been very active in reading and commenting on new works on this site, although I do visit (sometimes multiple times daily) and I scan the listed titles and names of their authors and I occasionally post a comment.  I am particularly attracted to works whose subjects and/or titles strike me as being particularly interesting, emotionally affective, clever, and timely -- and, of course, I have my own personal favorite poets and I try to read as many of their posts as I can.  

I will try to make my next "blog" a little more interesting!