How to start my own blog
It made me
relieved! 
"Not difficult but you can get caught up in the details if you aren't careful."
How I did it: I started my blog across several sites (blogspot and wordpress.com) finally settling on jhost.com to host my blog (www.lawrencejhughes.com) - I used godaddy.com to secure the domain and then had the DNS entries in godaddy switched to point to my hosted site at jhost.com
Jhost allowed me to use wordpress and to manage different themes. I eventually settled on the Atahualpa theme which required a series of configuration changes (via the website) to get to a "vanilla" theme for the site.
