Today, I had a visitor to my blog from the Philippines. That makes visitors from at least 51 countries since I started keeping track for the fun of it in February. I'm always amazed by the random flow of strangers that filter through the site. Earlier in the week I had a visitor from Tehran. I guess that's the nature of the new global world we live in.

The funny thing is that I visit very few foreign sites--in fact, I often avoid them. The traffic seems to be one way. I wonder if that is because of my lack of language skills, or another sign of how disconnected Americans are from the rest of the world.