Some exciting changes in how this blog presents itself, looks, and is organized.

I’m moving very much toward my new blog motto – love, care, hope. I want the blog to be a safe place in a tense, violent and angry world. I would have gagged at putting that up on my blog a few years ago. Now I need it as much as you do, And I’m committed to it.

But first, how the blog looks. As of noon, the blog font will darken and thicken, as is shown above. Many of you have written to me that the blog font was hard to read.  I heard you.

This should fix that.

We are adding color and definition to the blog. And some style.

Notice the “I” in this post leading off the story. And the new font style for easier reading.

We’ll do that with every post to give some style and definition. You’ll also see a red rather than grey border on the blog. We’re cleaning up the boxes and prompts and refining them.

The hope is a blog that is easier to read, brighter, more colorful, and enlightening or uplifting. I am no Pollyanna; I know there are difficult things in the world. I will continue to write about them when I see fit, but only when I can offer a perspective unavailable elsewhere. I don’t want to be part of the hate, rage, and lie machine.

We’ll be adding “badges” to posts of certain subjects – Army Of Good, Love, Care, Hope, Bedlam Farm, Animals, etc.

This is a safe place, a place of light, color, spirituality, animals, love, and hope. Also – this is important – a site devoted to getting you to think.

I had a Zoom meeting this morning with a creative, honest, and accommodating team from Mannix Marketing, the company that has been my partner and guide since I began the blog in 2007. Chris Archibee and designer Jamie Clechenko met virtually this morning to show me their ideas and recommendations and knock down some of my bad ones.

(Above, Zooming,  me, Chris Archibee, who has been my friend and guide on the blog since the very beginning, and Jamie Clechenko, the tech, and designer who makes the blog happen, cleans up tech messes and helps me just about every day in one way or another. A blog like this is not simple. Thanks for making my dreams come true.)

I love their work; bedlamfarm.com would never have gotten this far – we are read all over the country and much of the world – without them, and I am forever grateful for their friendship and support.

So all this is happening today, if not already. Feel free to let me know your thoughts on my blog comments or via e-mail.

And thanks for supporting my blog, putting up with me, and having faith in me,  many of you, since the beginning. I love it, work hard at it appreciate you.

Onward: love, care, hope.