-12c here when I got up this AM…
I had a WordPress site for a while, to justify all the time I spend prowling old newspapers… I was too cheap to spring for the pay version and found out the hard way that the free version is almost impossible to get search engines to index so I was basically talking to myself in a locked closet. 
I also had/have a Google Blog site but I haven’t used it in years.
Of the two, Google was easier to use. Wordpress was a bit quirky.
