Almost 6 years, and now 500 posts!!

This is post 500! What a wild ride it's been. It's amazing to think that I started this blog *before* I was on Facebook (and now I cross-post the entries to my FB wall), before I knew more than 10 words of Spanish, and before living in Barbados, Austria, and Chile and visiting dozens of other countries. While my posting frequency has declinded as other ways to communicate my thoughts have cropped up (and I admit I censor a little more now than before considering how broad my audience is), I look forward to seeing the next 6 years of posts! Thanks for reading and following as I've chronicled the past 20% of my life.