Just so you know, this is not a cheap thing to do. Once you create a part of a site that people can up-load themselves to on your server that contains the main web site, there are ways to hack into the site and screw everything up, copy all the email addresses etc. It becomes vulnerable to those with ill intent. So this means that like our store, it would be held in another server and another (hidden) site name, though no one actually realizes they are leaving the main server at OCF and going to a different one that is more encrypted and protected in another physical location (3000 miles away) when they enter our store. This means that we actually run two separate sites. A blog site would add a third, invisible to all of you, but non-the-less separate server and software for safety reasons. It is an expense to buy the software (or have Chester write the extensive code) that makes a blog site work. The reason I say all this, is that given what OCF would put into it financially, I want you to know a few things. 1. A blog where you keep a running journal of your musings, perspectives, and experiences, etc. takes a lot of time to create. Most bloggers post significant additions 3 to 5 times a week if not daily. Take a look at some blog sites around the web (there are thousands) and you will find a new medium that is challenging even mainstream news broadcasting, and requires no degree in reporting, journalism, or even for that matter honesty. This is definitely a way to keep friends and family up to date on your situation so you do not have to email each of them individually, and the running narrative is interesting to others having similar experiences, frustrations, fears, joys etc. But it is only of value if you intend to keep it up. You know it all sounds good in the beginning, but then when the urge isn't there to continue your dialog with the world.... or loose interest in it altogether, it comes to an end... either abruptly or tapering off into something that no one follows any more. So you have to be the kind of a person who really wants to express themselves to the world in a continuing and engaging way. Now having said all that, I want you to consider this - What a blog does isn't that much different from our message board. You can start a thread here, and add to it continuously for as long as that thread stays open. I don't close threads unless they get nasty and the topic needs to quit being added to. So posting a continuing daily blog on these boards is quite possible, you can add small pictures like most blog sites, and you can talk forever and a day... there is no limit to the size of a post that is within the realm of anyone's desires. You can title your posting -your blog- and ask others not to respond to it, or as in some blog sites, you can let others put, at the end of the running narrative, each posting, their comments. (Think about it

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.