Unfortunately...

...the time has come to enable the comment moderation option for my blog.  I didn't want to have to do this but I feel it best at this time.  I prefer to see my own comments on other blogs appear immediately and have left mine the same.  But because of an increasing number of unfavorable comments that lead to trashy sites I am making this decision to protect my readers.  I've been deleting the comments in the past but I'm busy and don't always catch them right away, and they have been getting more and more frequent.  So, for now anyway, comment moderation is on.