When I started blogging, I did not realize how many people would write comments on such a consistent basis.  Many of them ask me if I get enough traffic.  Some want to sell me something.  Most are obviously ESL folks from some former Soviet country, judging by their syntax.  Today, I got 65 comments about dyslexia — sixty-five!!!  I’d like to think that all this online love is due to my interesting blogs, but this is simply not so.  I get regularly bombarded by spammers.

Now, I’m a realist — I know that very few people have ever read anything I have written; maybe my mom and a few others… and maybe not even my mom.  I know for a fact that my family can’t even find this site, and has no interest in finding it.  Basically, I write for myself.  Why is it then that I get an average of 20 comments a day?  Spammers – Spammers who waste my time; Spammers, who make it almost impossible to find the few genuine comments that I do get.

If you leave an honest-to-goodness comment, I’ll always try to answer it!  If I don’t answer yours, you probably got lost in the pile of spam.