It’s a rainy, gloomy Sunday morning, and I should be in church like I was last Sunday, singing praise to God in the company of other souls who are looking for the same salvation we all need. But here I am sitting at a computer, tapping out words to anyone listening. Sure, I could come up with all kinds of not-good-enough excuses for not being in church, but the truth is I overslept.

No, I didn’t hit the streets last night, though sleep didn’t come until well after midnite. And I’d think the old excuse about not having something to wear gets kinda old in the Creator’s sight. And the weather – well, we could blame everything we can’t do in life on the rain.

Moving on to the subject I’d have at hand anyway after church, the rain in New Orleans most likely makes some Katrina survivors think about the year 2005, when all hell (I should say water) broke loose and didn’t send the city up in flames but down in water. And because so little yet so much has changed since then, it’s easy for me to draw comparisons.

So, filled with inspiration that’s so profoundly affected me since the inception of KatrnaConnection.com, here I am, trying to make some sense of this new world of blogging. In 2003, I sat at home recovering from a hernia operation a few weeks earlier, and learned from a five year old neice how to press a button to cut a computer on. Now, five years later in 2008, I sit here recovering from a back operation two weeks ago, trying to learn about this thing called a BLOG.

I guess I could be an editor, voice my opinions, and editorialize. That would be easy. But this blog section was not created only for that purpose. It is here for you. Show me how to blog.