Since Robert is not the type to spill his guts in a public forum, he has always been a little bit perplexed about why I bother maintaining a personal website. It’s not an easy thing to explain. I certainly don’t relish the idea of making myself completely vulnerable to strangers. What I do like is the opportunity it provides for self-exploration. Through selecting images, colors, words, and links to favorite sites, I discover more about who I am…what makes me uniquely me. I also like the way it brings me in contact with people who share my interests or who can turn me on to different ideas which I hadn’t considered before.

Something happened today that reinforced my sense that having a website is a good thing. One of my brother’s high school friends happened across my site by pure chance (you might say it was a serendipitous incident). Because of the site’s existence, he was able to write to me and find out how he could get in touch with my brother. I facilitated the reunion of two good friends. Not a bad day’s work, if I don’t say so myself.