With all the many, many ways of keeping in touch with the world and loved ones and friends that are now available, I find it increasing difficult to blog.  There is too the fact that I come from a generation where privacy was important and letting it all hang out is just not something comfortable.  If one has some expertise to share, or one's words of wisdom are truly pearls/diamonds/precious, then too there would be something to blog about.  But since none of these apply, matter to blog about becomes more and more difficult.  Hence these prolonged absences from blogworld.