Missing Blog Entries, WWW

Diane: As you may have noticed, this "family" blog is primarily composed of entries written by me, Diane. I just wanted to make sure no one reading about our journey got the mistaken impression that I am pretty much the only one posting entries. Oh no!

I see TM and Calliope writing feverishly, sometimes 2 or 3 times a day. It's part of our family's home schooling agreement that they compose journal entries containing a minimum of 1000 words at least 5 days a week. The objective here is to both improve their writing skills as well as to chronicle their trip. They have both colluded to go above and beyond the basic agreement and now write daily.

Tom, who could scribe a college-level history text, has chosen instead to write about our family's interpersonal dynamics. He is tracing the roots of these inter-relationships back to the time before TM and Calliope were born. He hopes to trace a trajectory into the future. We'll see if we can live up to it. His writing is hysterically funny and I can't keep from laughing out loud as I read it.

I know you're wondering why you haven't been afforded an opportunity to read these inspired pieces of commentary. You can now quit your wondering. The fact is that as soon as any of them posts an entry, I sneak in and delete it. There are actually 137 secretly-deleted entries. So, now you know.

NOT!

(Linda wrote in indicating an interest in our family dynamics. This entry is specifically directed at those of you who are jealous that our family gets along so well that we would voluntarily undertake this type of adventure. It is for those of you who have a child/grandchild/pet who always puts up a fight whenever asked to participate in anything with the word "family" in it, such as family-get-together or family-pow-wow (or family-meal for that matter). In fact, we get along just about the same as we did back home. Individually, we continue to have different and sometimes conflicting priorities. And I'm not having much success getting journal-writing to the top of anyone else's priority list.)