Hello, and welcome to this new blog!
  I am ... not going to reveal my name, so you can call me Writer.  I am female, older - over 40, but not over 70 - and presently in college.  I'm presently learning how to create a blog and how to do research online.  This blog will be about my journey, and also, by default, about the topics I will be researching.  I'll get back to this later when I have more to report.
  "And I'm back!"
  My first hurtle was trying to find a name for this thing, which was easier than I thought.  I just used the example blog - risforresearch.blogspot.com - and changed the first three letters, and came up with rforresearch.blogspot.com
  My next challenge was to choose a template, but I can always change that later if I want, so I chose a simple, plain one.  I will change it later.
  The last thing I needed to do before logging officially off was to make this post, and I've done that now, so there you have it.
  Ta Da!