My Mac is back, and better than ever. Blogging shall return probably tomorrow, after I find stuff I hope is somewhere on my external hard drive.

My two other books are still available! "The Stations of the Cross for Alcoholics" and "The Recovery Rosary: Reflections for Alcoholics and Addicts" (Thank you!!)

I will be offline for an indefinite period. My Mac is down and in need of some repair. I hope to be back up and running within a week, God willing.

My two other books are still available! "The Stations of the Cross for Alcoholics" and "The Recovery Rosary: Reflections for Alcoholics and Addicts" (Thank you!!)

No one has ever commented or emailed displeasure with the Google AdSense advertising that I had been running on this blog, but nevertheless I have decided to discontinue it for a variety of reasons.

One: I wasn’t making any money off of it. Less than $20 in the past year. There is a correlation between traffic and ad clicking, and while I have decent readership, I guess hardly anyone was clicking on the ads. This is fine as I rarely do that myself on other people’s blogs.

Two: the ads may have been misleading or offensive. Quite often they were about alcohol and addiction treatment program (obviously, they were generated based on post content) or on something “Catholic-y”. The misleading aspect is that the ads may have offered information opposed to the goals of this blog, and the offensive aspect may be that some of the “Catholic-y” ads may have been created by anti-Catholic bigots. Quite often this is done by bigots masquerading as Catholics to draw people away from the True Faith.

Anyway, I in general dislike advertising. I will not get rid of it entirely, but will only run ads that I know are not contrary to the Faith and therefore I have more control of.

I may get some sort of PayPal thingy where readers can donate money if they like what they read, but that will be later on when I think about it more.

My two other books are still available! "The Stations of the Cross for Alcoholics" and "The Recovery Rosary: Reflections for Alcoholics and Addicts" (Thank you!!)

Once again I am trying the web service known as Twitter

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Twitter is a “nanoblogging”or “microblogging” service that is increasingly popular. I had tried it before (see this post ) but couldn’t figure how to make use of it.

It seems to be more useful now, especially since I joined Tweet Catholic, a group of Catholics on Twitter. Tweet Catholic is a part of flockNote , a service which you can share information, news and links with like-minded people. There is a link to FlockNote in my sidebar, you can use it to subscribe to this blog and to other blogs.

Anyway, my username on Twitter is @sobercatholic, join and follow my “Tweets!” There is also a gadget-thingy in my sidebar which lists my last bunch of Tweets.

Twitter is a great way to build a community and rally the flock around stuff. As with any technology, it can be a way to waste time. It is what you make of it.

My two other books are still available! "The Stations of the Cross for Alcoholics" and "The Recovery Rosary: Reflections for Alcoholics and Addicts" (Thank you!!)