Writing this blog has been therapy for me. I can write about the things that are complicating our lives and know the people reading these words will understand. It’s a great way for me to work through feelings and frustrations. Imagine my upset when the last piece I wrote got lost somewhere in the on-line blog machine that hosts my site and I couldn’t figure out what had happened. It was a major curve in what had been a pretty good day.

I am not a huge techie and suddenly I was seeing all kinds of ugly outcomes. I just knew my blog had been hi-jacked, but why anyone might want to do that didn’t really make any sense. I tried to reach the host site, but they weren’t available by phone and emails were taking too long. I jumped into a dark hole with both feet and was ready to delete the entire blog and close the site. My loving husband  finally suggested that since I had reported the issue it was time to step back and let the professionals do their work before making any rash decisions.

The next morning I finally got my answers. It seems there had been an internal glitch that was redirecting posted messages within the host site and several blogs were impacted including mine. I was assured that no one had hi-jacked my site or done anything nefarious and that they were working to correct the problem.

The lesson I gleaned from all of this was not to over-react. Life is too out of control already and when I felt I had lost one more piece, I lost it myself. Thankfully, all is back in order and the blog can continue. Getting upset didn’t do me any good and things were cleared up in a timely manner. So, my message for today is when life throws me a curve, I’m going to try to act appropriately and keep on doing those things that matter most. We’ll see if I am able to stick to that.