Welcome to our blog! I was inspired to begin a blog because I am nosy and enjoy reading other people's blogs so much. I also want to help our family and friends keep up with us, even though we hope Gunter's adventures in cancer treatment should become a lot more routine by the end of March.

It's silly for me to have the urge to communicate about my life because I already communicate all day long. In my waking hours, if I'm not writing, I'm talking. If I'm not talking, I'm usually going over various mental lists or pondering ways to solve the world's problems. As if I need something else to take up my time or force me to make decisions... "What should I write?" "Which picture should I post?" "How can I make this sentence less wordy?"

I'll probably get "in trouble" with Gunter for starting this blog. I'm a lot more willing to share with unidentified members of an online audience than he is. I need to be careful about that, too, since it's more difficult to track who views my blog than it was on my Facebook account. I was doing so well since I was weaned off Facebook, but now I'm creating for myself another addiction. Besides, I tend to run off at the fingers.