Before I let any more time slip by between my fingers, I want to say thank you to three bloggers for unknowingly becoming an inspiration to me, an otherwise technologically –and perhaps socially- challenged mortal. That said, thanks be to the authors of Ernie the Attorney, Bracuta and This is not my Country.

I wish I could remember the exact date and time in blogosphere history when I first ran into their writings, pictures and other muses. But I can’t.

Perhaps it would be flattering if I could tell each one of them –separately- that I have read their blog every single day passed since the first day I got there. But I haven’t.

Still, I would like to show a token of my gratitude right here and now, together with a few of the reasons why I keep coming back to their blogs.

Ernie, thanks to you I got to know what was that blogging thing. I knew nada about it before I ran into your blog.

Even today, when I am struggling with little to no regular traffic on my blogging endeavors, when I decided to learn what a trackback was, I searched your blog for some plain language I could understand and found it. Did I already mention that I am technologically challenged?

I find your blog to be well written and humanely close with some great pictures.

Last, please know that I had been reading your entries for many months before Katrina hit New Orleans and was deeply concerned for your safety and your people. Wish you well.

Bracuta, through your posts –and rants- you have showed me that your blog is your own place where to say the things you want to say; most certainly an extension of your mind and persona.

I try to enjoy diversity to the fullest, even if sometimes I do not get away with overcoming my not so fake shyness. . .

Yes, regardless if I disagree with you on some topics –baseball, music, activities of choice and some politics included— I keep coming back to your blog because you show me the Dominican Republic from a different angle, which might be otherwise ignored by me.

Just to show you how far back we go in our blogger-reader relationship, I still remember when you were asking for a Gmail invite. It was hilarious.

Hey, and guess what? Ernie is your colleague; like yourself, he is also a lawyer – And please, do not hit me with a heavy brick if it was already obvious.

That said, Bracuta, I find your blog to be highly personal, straightforward –sometimes even blunt- and transparent.

DeviousDiva, you are my most recent addition on this process of perpetually learning to enjoy diversity through blogging. Through This is not my country you have showed me that even if so geographically separate we do share some common interests and worries in some very serious stuff, like the denial of official birth registrations for children . . .

Yet, you have recently showed me -yesterday- that blogging is not only about the serious stuff and that sometimes you can get away -you may even need to get away- from it all to follow your instincts and laugh it off, even if you resume your serious blogging right the next day.

To all of you, thanks. I am vouching for a renewal of my blogging activities and look forward to delivering a daily entry; also, I have found new tools to make things easier for me to revise and publish.

I know you will be quite busy and therefore do not expect you to read this post, albeit it would be a nice surprise to learn otherwise. Most importantly, I hope that someday, when I finally get some readers to this blog, they learn about yours and the inspirational force that you have driven across the blogosphere for many like me.