I am sitting here staring at my computer screen wanting to punch a hole right through it. It seems it is all I do now.

Sit and stare at it and hope that words will magically appear in front of me. But, night after night, it doesn't happen. Instead, I succomb to my inability to get anything started, click off Microsoft Word, and start surfing the web.

When I started a blog in 2009, I thought I was doing it because I missed writing. I had written professionally for newspapers off and on for 12 years and and missed the rush of turning an empty screen into a 12- to 30-inch story in 30 minutes.

What have I realized over the last few months though is what I like the most