"Problem I see with blogs," quoth the good Bishop, "is who will read them?"
So I was led to spend much of the past season online in the small world of LiveJournal, where about 95 folks regularly read my posts, that is, when I post anything at all.
Then, about a week ago I got an email from a friend of the family we hadn't seen for years and years, who stumbled across this blog -- either this one or my more personal one. It was nice to hear from her, and get pictures of her children. And last night I went to a Mardi Gras party in Astoria -- Nawlins people start Mardi Gras at Epiphany, after all, it's their only industry -- and an eccentric gentleman (even for that crowd) began speaking of my comments on the Russian Catholic Church, not knowing that they were in fact mine, intimating that our host needed to get involved in blogging, not knowing that he in fact has posting rights on this blog, which he has never used. So I thought I'd best revive the enterprise, even though the original members, mostly from the First Hour list, have migrated over to LiveJournal without doing much here. So I am posting this message, and sending reminders to many of the folks I invited way back when, who never responded, and inviting a few more folks I have met since.
And if this blog develops a distinct traditionalist, even monarchist, or antiwar flavor, well so be it.
Blog Between the Worlds 
Sunday, January 05, 2003