Thanks for the kind words. I was lured into it by the Pepys diary blog, which was a vital part of the early blogosphere, starting in 2003. I had only sporadically been part of the group reading through it then, but when it re-started in 2013, I and my then-partner—who was also a long-time blogger—started reading it together, and I got the idea of making erasure poems out of each entry just for fun. With that kind of easy-going attitude, I only slowly got any good at it, which is why I’m now re-doing the first several years in what has become my mature style.