I've been blogging here on Adoptionblogs.com for well more than a year now ... a bit longer on the International Adoption Blog than this one, but in this community, nonetheless.

For months I've been writing at least 43 posts per month per blog, which is a heck of a lot of words to string together, and I'll admit there are days when the work is as hard as trying to draw water from a dry well.

It's not the writing that has me pacing, pulling out my hair and ferreting through the Internet like ... well, like a hungry ferret out to find a few tasty tidbits that might also provide some nourishment. I can manage to grind out 300 to 500 words about just about anything, but it's the "about anything' part that can cause an hour of frustration.

International adoption is a wide topic, as wide as the world in fact, and there's an almost constant supply of news, information, opinion and such that relates.

Older parenting, however ... now, that's a different kettle of aging mackerel.

I used to have a couple of geezer partners here, but they've abandoned ship or sailed off into the sunset or have done whatever it is that old bloggers do. (Old bloggers never die, they just link to a higher category?) Now, though, I'm on my own trying to keep you all informed, entertained and clicking on over here to see what's new.

Hence ... and I do love hence ... I'm turning to ya'll for a little help.

It seems to me that I have the greatest bunch of readers in Blogland. A smart and funny free-floating group that surprisingly ranges widely in age ... surprising only because of the topic of this blog, but maybe not so much so since everyone will be older someday, with luck ... you're so much of what keeps me thinking, seeking, wondering, contemplating my own and my children's navels and trying to put together at least a little bit of interest for as many as possible day after day.

Comments make my week, and I love the interchange I have with many of you that carries off this page and into emails where I laugh and learn even more.

So, anyone want to throw me a bone here and let me know what sort of things you'd like me to write about? You don't have to be specific, just point me in a direction. Or, if you prefer, give me a hoop to jump through and I'll see what I can dig out from the other side and pass along.

You're why I'm here, and I want to do the best I can for all of you.

In honor of how important you are and how much I appreciate you taking your time and spending a bit of it with me ... throwing bones, or not ... this Love Thursday is dedicated to my fabulous readers.

Thank you!