[rei]

i started a blog a while back that is mainly spiritual content and some occasional emotional outpourings. i will still get emails for comment notification - if people comment on the emotional outpouring, my thinking is they could relate and maybe didn't feel so alone in that then-current emotional state. and if they comment on the spiritual stuff, well, they had a resonance effect i suppose. basically, i was reading another thread in this subforum and it suddenly hit me that this blog had been developing a little bit of a 'following' and then i just quit writing. but if i still get trickles of interested parties, i'm thinking it might be a worthy endeavor.

so anyway, if i am getting those comments even now when i haven't updated the blog in months, i am wondering if i could revisit the regular entries, providing value, and add some type of revenue options. here's my questions...

- how to make money from a free wordpress blog? (is that possible? do you have to convert it somehow or make a lot of advanced html alterations?)
- is adsense the only option in a situation like this?
- what resources would help me if i decide to act on this (links, tips, etc.)?

by the way, i'd like to say my main goal here is to get back into the regular posts based on confirmation from visitors that it was valuable to them, and is still valuable even though i haven't posted in a while. if i can make a little extra money, that's icing on the cake. but i am not really familiar with how to convert a blog into a source of income, however small the income may be at first. (no, i'm not trying to turn a single blog into my only source of income.) so while i'm thinking it would be a good service to both self and others to begin posting again, i'd like to find out about potential modifications i'd need to make first, rather than interrupting the content later.


thanks in advance for your insights.