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Change is in the air!

For those long time and faithful readers of my blog, you may have noticed I have renamed this blog.

The more I thought about it, the more I realized the original name, livingwithmcl.com, was just not appropriate, so a new name seemed long overdue. I think Living with MCL, is a much better description of what this blog is about.

You might have also noticed that I added a new link, just to the left of the email me link above, entitled My Journal.

It seems that I have been hesitant to post many things to this blog (for fear that I will bore people and turn them off), that go on in my daily life, that I feel are important, at least from the perspective of keeping track of how normal, everyday occurrences affect or are affected by my MCL.

So I need to have another outlet, in order to express all my thoughts, anxieties, experiences, inspirations and what every else comes to mind during a typical day.

And while this is intended principally to satisfy my own selfish needs, I have no objection to anyone reading it, if they are so compelled.

Just be warned, don’t expect any brilliant revelations, or otherwise thrilling information to surface. Hopefully I’ll save that for this blog, as well as my blog at The Medical Blog Network.

It's been said that,

In times of change, learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.


Eric Hoffer said that, and while I don't think I need to go into any great detail explaining what he meant (it is fairly self explanatory), I would like to add one thing.

As we grow and society continues to evolve around us, we have to learn to adapt to our changing environment. If we don't, we are forced to live in the past, never experiencing all that life has to offer.

In simpler terms, change is a good thing!

Thank you Eric for reminding me of that!
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Becky said…
BTW I like the new title.
5:20 AM
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