Am I an optimist or a pessimist?  Is the glass half full or half empty?  Is this a new beginning for and a new re-commitment to my blog, or is this a total failure on my part.   I had every intention of coming back to, and working on what is now my “old” blog (DukkhaGirl.com, now redirecting to this site).  But, I took some time away, started riding my bike, getting in better shape, trying my hand at fiction writing, and spending less time on the internet, less time on Facebook, Twitter, the blog, etc.  But while I was away, the gremlins otherwise known as hackers broke into my site and hacked away, leaving an “online banking” phish as DukkhaGirl’s front page.  I had no idea of this until I got a call from my web host, who, as I’ve since found out, isn’t well regarded for their customer service or security.  By that time Google had blacklisted me as an unsafe site, and when I went to clean the site up, I had multiple errors preventing me from accessing my own admin panel.  My last database backup being old, and the new database having some screwed up elements in user settings, I was lucky to be able to salvage the posts, categories and comments from my database, and this site is the result (hosted at a better web hosting provider).  Maybe I’m a little too attached to the blurbs I’ve written, but I have some trouble letting go.  I am working on itSmile.

So, I’m not sure what this site will be, yet, probably more of the same.  And I have a lot of re-creating to do.  Until then, this site will be kind of messed up and disorganized for a while.   And maybe I’ll concentrate more on writing (I had a lot of pending posts to finish) rather than coming up with new site headers every few months.  Maybe.  Thank you to everyone who read and commented on my posts at DukkhaGirl.com (your comments probably made it over here).  Thank you to my many recent Twitter followers (I plan to edit my Twitter account and get back to doing some Tweeting).

CJ (formerly Perplexity)