Forgive me Father, for I have ...

For the many blogs that start with "Confessions of ...", it is just that. By the way, wouldn't it be nice someday to be able to say, "Forgive me Sister, for I have ... ".

I had an unfinished conversation with a reader because of her temperamental mailbox (unreliable). If I were to analyze myself, my blog could be many things from time to time but confession was how it started and it will always be. Unlike the real thing, when you are certain to find someone listening to your confession, bloggers have to be careful not to turn away all potential listeners.

For example, confession A put off half the readers and confession B put the remaining half to sleep. Even if I am not (and cannot) be sensitive about counters and statistics, in this case I would rather start two blogs to avoid having zero counts.

Also, you can't please everybody, so it's good to maintain a healthy pool of "priests". Or, as in jury selection, some enjoy every minute of it even though they tried and couldn't get away at first. If the selection is totally voluntary, you may not get useful people at all. Forget about the logic, it doesn't have to make sense all the time.

As for the interaction, it doesn't really matter as in the real thing. Sometimes silence is gold. In all my past and present blogs, I had people reading everyday, and some coming back over a hundred times. If they don't want to say anything, they don't. I can imagine that they are my loyal fans, tongue frozen when they tried to talk to me during an autograph. Or, they despise me, but it's good to find somebody to look down upon, laugh at, swear at the computer. It doesn't really matter, welcome all the same.