Just as I was about to shut down the computer for the evening, I checked emails to see if there was anything that required an immediate response. With a jaded, somewhat perturbed eye, I spotted an email from HubPages.

Hmmph! I thought.

I'd just "celebrated" three years on HP and have been inactive the last two. Are they deactivating my account? I wondered.

I've really nothing bad to say about HubPages. They've got a very nice UI and I love the options I have with my profile page. I can highlight my favorite articles, you can see my reputation score and the badges I've earned. They've also got a pretty active community as long as one puts the time in to develop it. Hmm... Why does this sound familiar?

All of my posts on HubPages are what I consider EVERGREENS. They have and will continue to stand the test of time. They are as relevant today as when I wrote them three years ago but the striked difference between them and us as far as residuals is my HP articles will keep earning long after I'm dead (if the site is around that long).

Looking through my stats, I was pretty shocked to see that my account still gets traffic, albeit very light traffic, but it's still earning pennies a day much like a BTC faucet will do.

Sadly, I've only managed to earn a whopping total of $21.97 in three years BUT remember what I said earlier. I haven't done anything on that site in over two years.

"We've selected your article for a HubPages Network Site"

Well, that made me pause with curiosity. Maybe this email is click-worthy.

And with one email that I almost blindly deleted, I found myself signing in to yet another site, updating my biography and reading through the "highest quality article" they found in my meager selection of posts.

Oh, good gravy! There's room for TONS of improvement in all of my articles!

Now I've got an incredible amount of editing to do and one more link to add to my website because...

WHY NOT?

Maybe this is another avenue to spread my creative wings.

Maybe it's an opportunity to be a Steemit evangelist on a well-established site.

Maybe I need to see this as opportunity knocking instead of giving it the cold shoulder.

Maybe if I dust off my account and show a little life there I can turn it into another potential earning avenue.

I know it's not Arianna Huffington emailing me about re-publishing an article but...

I still think this is exciting!