Richard Szpin
Senior, blogger, community activist and writer too!
The beginnings
Years ago, when I was a teacher, a group of really dedicated kids helped me compile the school’s yearbook year after year. This passionate group of kids instilled in me a love of publishing which ultimately led to my publishing as a hobby in retirement…hence my web page with all its posts.
My website over the years
Over the years, my website grew and I learned. I am completely self-taught in regard to anything on my website. At times it has been very frustrating and a hair-pulling endeavour. Inevitably I have worked things out and here I am more than eight years later, an ongoing website with over 8,000 posts. This is why site visitors need a road map or guide to navigating my website because it has so much in it.
Navigate well to maximize your visits
To get the most from my site, use the tools that will make navigation most productive and beneficial.
- BANNERS
Click one of the two banners below the DATE to access
1. MY MONTHLY NEWSLETTER –
OR
2. Information about my website
[When my site was first created, I named it “BOOKz, COOKz, NOOKz” as those were my primary areas of interest and the logo I created was 
to symbolize SAILS, exploring the Internet world. Over the years, my interests varied, the times changed, the world changed, many times in many many ways and my site changed to mirror those other changes. Hence, look in the CATEGORY search box to see the many categories in which I have written. Click a category to access what I have posted there.]
Useful tools FOUND ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE FRONT PAGE:
- SEARCH BOXES
Two search boxes are available where you can search By TOPIC or By CATEGORY. - WIDGETS
Widgets are the other useful tools for navigating the site. To use a widget, click on a titled illustration in the right column of the site. You will access that particular category, important enough in my view to get its own illustration and clickable access. Try one or two.
