To Add AdSense or Not to Add AdSense, That is The Question

I love to write, and since I've never been much of a hustler, I couldn't get myself paid positions as a writer.  A few years ago, I began sending articles via email, essays I'd written about life here in Shiloh to friends all over the world.  I called them "musings."  The response was fantastic and people kept telling me to get an internet site.  That's how I started blogging.

I consider my blogs to be my  very own magazines.  I can post whatever I want whenever I want. I can even have guest-writers post on my blogs.  It's much easier than trying to get my articles in as op-eds in various publications.  I started blogging long before internet versions of newspapers allowed writers to blog on their sites.  I've even gotten those sorts of positions, but it's a "volunteer job."  I don't get paid.  There was a time when I allowed an ad company to advertise on my blog and whatever money I got I gave to charity, but they stopped years ago.

The closest thing I've gotten as "payment" has been books to review.

I blog daily on both this blog and Shiloh Musings.  That means that I do spend a lot of my time writing, and I take my writing/blogging seriously.  Shouldn't I make some money from it?  A neighbor insists that we, my blogging husband and I are missing out on money we could and should get from advertising.  He says that we really ought to get a paypal account and sign up with Google's AdSense.

Nu?  What do you think?  Does it really pay? If you have experience with AdSense, please let me know in the comments, thanks.