revelation and apology

Last week I was reading this post (about responding to comments) by one of my favorite "seasoned" bloggers, and felt my heart drop into the pit of my stomach. I realized that for the the entire summer...maybe longer... I've been sending responses to your fantastic comments out into a big black hole. NOOOO! Several months ago, a dear friend showed me how to receive my comments on maya*made through e-mail. Up until then, I had to scroll through past posts by hand to see if there were any missed comments. So silly and so time consuming...yup, I'm a little embarrassed to admit how clueless I am. You see, I'm not very technically savvy and as much as I've learned since March...there are still some huge gaps. Well, it gets worse! I have received comments from my Typepad friends directly regarding my comments on their blogs, and I just assumed that I could do the same through Blogger. I didn't think twice about the"noreply" addresses following your names, and just assumed it was a google privacy tool and that my follow-up e-mails were safely landing in your mailboxes. Nope. I'm heartsick! I have spent hours reaching out to so many of you...letting you know intimately and personally how much I appreciate your feedback, questions and involvement in my blog. I intentionally wrote directly to you (rather than in the comment section), so that you'd know me just a little deeper and understand that we were friends! What void did all of that love fall into? Maybe it went out to the universe and you've felt it somehow anyway, because here you still are... even though you are unaware of my unreceived letters. It's less about time lost, and all about appreciation inadvertently gone astray. So what to do? First off, I hope you're getting the picture about how I feel about you, my wonderful community of readers, and know how grateful I am for each time you pause in your busy day to check in on me and share your supportive thoughts and comments. And all of you lurkers, I love you too! So this post is my sincere apology for any doubts that you may have had about my total appreciation for you...you all know who you are. I also hope this post serves to inform any other bloggers of this Google/Blogger glitch. From this day on, please look for my responses to any questions in the comment section of maya*made, unless you have enabled your profile on Blogger to receive e-mails (for directions click here). Phew! Good to get that off my chest... breathe...

Moving forward, I have some fun stuff planned for this week!