I’ve been online since 1998. This girl was addicted after one short trip along the Information Highway.

One of the first sites that I joined was called women.com, which is now a part of I-Village. It was there that I set up my first website. That first page was one non-stop paragraph because I didn’t know any HTML. Within a day or two I learned about search engines, and found loads of tutorials.

I was quite happy building pages with way too many animated graphics, when women.com announced they would stop hosting. I figured I would buy my own web address, and host a personal site somewhere else. But then I happened upon my first identifiable blog at Xanga, and joined immediately.

Weblogs could be updated whenever you wanted, and the web-based software did all the technical stuff.

I’ve used a lot of blogging platforms since then, each with it’s own pluses & minuses.

I’m writing this Mother’s Day 2009, because this particular blog is going through it’s second major tear down. The fun part will be building it up again.

Oh by the way: My name is Frances D, I’m 47 and have lived in New York all my life. My daughter is 26 as of this writing, and simply amazing. Yes, I know all moms say that, but believe me she is amazing.

I look forward to sharing with you, and I thank you for visiting.

Peace.