Why is it that the headlines on MSN promise a dire future for us?  I mean, can't we ever see stories about what it is that we do right?  I realize that these headlines are teasers to provoke the internet user to read on but I fear that in the aggregate we are creating a very pessimistic and cynical mindset in America.  I can't read in other languages but I wonder if other nations' news outlets are equally gloomy.

I remember when I was in college back when Chester A. Arthur was president and we noted that the oldsters used to lament the lack of good news.  So maybe I am just showing my age now. 

So news bureaus:  Don't waste my time. Just give it to me straight.  I don't need Polly-anna nor do I want Eor as my correspondent. 

I am trying to rework this blog so that it isn't so cumbersome.  What a struggle.  Maybe I should just ditch this and start all over after 4 years. 

I don't deal well with complicated.  Life is just too much of a struggle as it is without making it harder with twiddling around with arcane screens.

 

Maybe I will get into a groove here eventually. 

For the past couple of months, I have had a brief but strangely unsatisfying encounter with Facebook.  For better or worse, I have gotten re-acquanted with some old friends from high schools and have acknowledged several members of my family, who I fear have offered me friend status out of familial loyalty rather than anything to say to me. 

And so I have discovered that blogging is my posting of choice.  I can author controversial statements and express my true opinions here rather than couch my terms in vanilla so that I will not offend someone in public.

I am not going to disappear from Facebook but just passively lurk and read the various postings of my family and former associates that have graced my life over the past 68 years.