Well, hi there, all of you out there in the listening darkness. First of all, I wish you all a Happy Winter solstice – which will occur at 10:27 tonight. Then, it will be well and truly winter.

I know I have been missing in action for an inordinate amount of time in these waning days of the year, but … well … I’ve been sick. I always seem to be sick these days, but there are layers to being a semi-invalid. Sometimes you can make it out to the car and enjoy a refreshing ride to and from the grocery store. Other times you stagger around the house, hacking piteously and trying not to puke on your computer. The least productive times, like the last fortnight, all I do is sleep. It doesn’t seem to help anything.

It’s a merry-go-round of recalcitrant anatomy. I wish it were my knees or something else classically connected with creeping old age. Sadly, it’s mostly internal organs with whom I am not currently on speaking terms; or something to which I’ve paid no attention for 70 years, but which is now attempting a hostile takeover. But I have managed to find a safe place just before Christmas.

Mind you, that has also been a trail of tears. I run my website off some subsidiary of WordPress (I think. The degree of incest and interbreeding on the web has reached Faulknerian proportions.) But it is Christmas week, and I suspect everyone has taken the week OFF. And when they left, they abandoned all the wriggly, tentacular messes infesting the Web to fend for themselves. Us, too. We pitiful users get to struggle to find a way into our sites and actually input something.

Tonight, my only solution has been to start a blog. I can’t get into my website, even though it is supposedly part of WordPress as well. So, now I have a blog. This is my maiden post; while I don’t intend to abandon my website, I have this as something I can apparently use when the other bit won’t work. Now all I have to do is see how many djinn I have to invoke to get it posted where it belongs.

For your personal reference, the URL for this brand-new blog is:

kageandkathleengoon.wordpress.com.

That bit just after my name, by the way, is not “goon”, appropriate as it might be, but the URL-smooshed “go on.” I wish you all good luck if you have to use it.

In the meantime – I shall continue to wrestle with the Web, and hopefully be able to post things in a timelier and more efficient manner.

And in the meanwhile, a Merry Christmas to you all!