This is the 200th blog.  When I started, twenty-one months and 21,000 pageviews ago, I had no idea of how many entries there would be.  I started with a sense of urgency, and initial blogs were all about medical issues and procedures, death, and atheism.  As the days passed and the number of entries increased, the subject matter broadened: a lot about politics during the election, a number about poetry and its joys and consolations.  Although all of those subjects still appear, by now the blog is pretty diffuse.  Unless there's something specific, like tests at the cancer center, I write about whatever is on my mind at the time, no matter how trivial it may be.  Usually the night before I'm going to write, I begin to worry that I'll have nothing to say.  It's not exactly writer's block, since I know I won't be silent, but rather a shuffling through current events, possible poems, the state of my health in order to find something that will engage me and, I hope, the readers. 

Thanks to all of you who have stuck with me for longer than any of us expected.  With more good chemo and a little luck, I hope I'll be around for number 300.