I use Blogger . It's free and it works. You can look at my cat-blog at
https://marksmews.blogspot.com to see an example. It's safe. This place is a bit lame about allowing links or I would give it directly. But I'm not trying to monetize anything.
Wordpress is popular but some of my friends have troubles with it sometimes. A link to "A top ten" is
https://www.top10best-blogsite...
I'm not suggesting any site. But there are some to consider. As I said, I get along with Blogger just fine...