Welcome, reader!

I wasn’t planning to write today but I noticed that I have a follower. An actual blog follower!

Can’t keep an audience – even an audience of one – waiting.

So welcome.

Truth be told, I never thought I would write a blog. It has been a challenge. First, I am used to reporting, writing or editing stories written from the third-person perspective. For 20 years, I have been a cool-headed, detached observer with no dogs in the fight.

Now, I’m trying to get across my POV. It's a daunting task. I’m not the sort of person who would stand with a megaphone at the edge of a cliff and yell about my disease. That’s what I feel like doing.

Having an audience – even an audience of one – scares me. I want to make sure my readers get something valuable from this. So, in the coming weeks, I’ll be doing some original reporting on sarcoidosis. They’ll be posted here and will be sharable.

I’m also mulling the potential expiration date of this blog. My goal right now is simple: Blog through this transition from sickness to wellness – that guarantees six months to a year’s worth of blogging.

After that, is the blog useful? Does it expire or evolve into something else? The answer to that will be revealed sometime in the future. And readers will have a hand in that, I am sure.

So, there it is, my friend. And welcome.

Now, how do I get more folks to read this blog…?