The suggestion has been given to me by daughter, Malia, that I use this blog as a way of communicating the news of the day that I have been posting on Facebook.  In that way, we can have conversations about what I post.  I have not used this blog as a posting site since 2017.  We shall see if it works for "having conversations about local and international news."   So this particular post is an experiment.  Hello everyone.  Welcome to my blog!