My Bad Luck at Being a Frodo Baggins

Until quite recently I viewed writing a blog as a long-term endeavor, sort of like Frodo Baggins going and going and still going to drop that ring into the fires of Mount Doom for the duration of LOTR’s three books.

But that wasn’t my luck. Somehow my blogging enterprise proved to be less of a journey and more of a fight with orcs that quickly left everyone dead. Many reasons. First, it was due to technical difficulties – the website-building company I chose proved to be a Mordor for blogging purposes. Then, there was a huge hosting goof-up – the blogging platform I decided to use mistook my blog for a Gollum and killed it. And always it was thanks to a misalignment in my stars – I can’t quite prove it, but I know it’s there. And so, with a half-hopeful and half-weary heart, I am starting this blog, the fourth one in the last month. I do hope it will at least get out of the Shire, but we’ll see. Wish me luck.