Brussels, Sept. 2, 2006 Dear Friend and Reader: We are rearranging some of the features on Planet Waves, and this includes discontinuing my daily blog as it's existed since October 2004, right before the presidential "election." For me as a writer, this is part of a project of pulling in a little bit and removing seven scheduled articles from my schedule each week. Outrageous as it is, for the past couple of years I've been doing about 15 articles a week, covering between 15,000 and 25,000 words of content production in a single week many times. From my end, this is an integrity issue: I need to make a few decisions that help me get a little more of my time, space and creative life to myself. However, I'd much prefer to do this in a way that keeps things interesting and creates involvement. So here is the new arrangement. The front page blog will now be the Quote of the Day edition, which has been running for a month over on the Horoscope Homepage. This is edited by Tracy Sullivan. I'll add links to interesting articles that come my way. Second is that we've introduced the Astrology Secrets Revealed Forum, with a few different writers home. This will mostly cover personal themes but when a news chart is up for discussion, we'll take it there. Next, I'm leaving the original blog programming up at http://ericfrancis.com/ -- but this will be updated on a different tempo and I will feel free to write about the sewer excavation project happening on my street on the day of Dick Cheney's resignation. Last, I'll be using the Café Blog (on the subscriber homepage) to give astrology updates -- but in a format that I or another writer can do, so it will be possible to have stand-ins. Now let's give up a big round of applause for decisions to help me get a handle on my life and creative energy!! And thank you everyone who is helping support these changes -- particularly the other astrologers, some people I truly love, who are getting their feet wet handing ASR questions. Meanwhile, I play a hot show every Friday in Planet Waves Weekly. Learn about that here. Thanks for your time. Yours & truly, Eric Francis