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The one thing you can count on

© Kelly L. Henderson

For the past few months I've been managing a website aimed at adult piano students. I had thought for a long time about having such a website after realizing that few online resources of the kind exist. But I wasn't sure whether there was enough of an audience for it to warrant financing it myself (we're talking serious niche here).

When I learned of an online publisher that would purchase the domain name of your choice and then let you manage your site content through them completely free of charge (the catch - they'd be placing ads) I proposed my piano site to them. Soon after I became a first time webmaster.

That was back in August of 2001. I proceeded gamely, loading content, updating regularly, but nothing much seemed to happen. With millions of websites on the internet, I wondered if the site would ever find readers. Months went by before I had my first subscriber. I felt a twinge of hope. I began to get occasional positive feedback from readers. More hope. And one by one more readers subscribed.

I put out a monthly newsletter. I started a daily weblog that developed a regular following. I searched the internet for amusing, helpful, useful information and resources. I received more positive feedback and more subscribers. It seems I was on to something. I was managing the "little website that could", and noone could have been more thrilled than me.

A couple of weeks ago I reached an important milestone: the site registered its 100th subscriber. And last week I received some news: our "free" online hosting was coming to an end. My little website was getting the boot.

Ah, change - don't you love it? It's the one thing that will never let you down. Sometimes we can see it coming and prepare for it. But just as often it sneaks up on us and takes us by surprise. (And I don't know about you, but I don't care much for that!)

Still it's inevitable given all the change cycles that exist in our lives. First there's birth and death and all the living and growing we do in between. Then there are the changes we experience in the economy, changes in government, changes in the world. The unpredictability of weather and other forces of nature. Reversals and setbacks in our health, our fortunes, our families. All these things spell changes of some sort or another sooner or later.

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