First of all, an apology and a word of thanks to all of my friends who still drop by the site even though I haven’t written in the damn thing in over a month. If I had a dollar for every “welcome back” I got and paid back that dollar for every time I stopped writing, I would still owe some money.

So here’s the skinny: the past few months at work have been a rockin’ crazy time, but I have decided to step down from my supervisory work and live the life of a regular associate. I wasn’t ready to take on the role and honestly it was a bit much for me. My creative work suffered; my personal life suffered.

I make a third less now than I used to, but I gain much more in peace of mind and in the ability to branch out again and follow my interests, instead of having a job I am not ready for consuming my life.

As I look through the site and what few entries I have had recently, I honestly don’t know what to write about. The only thing of which I am certain is that these days I find myself wanting to write and write even more. I write in my daily journal at home. I write down the things I learn. There seems to be a yearning to archive and record anything and everything I come across. I have lived with that yearning all my life but it has not been as intense as it has been as it has been recently.

And so, instead of welcoming myself back to the ’sphere like some undesirable guest inviting himself to a party where he is not welcome, I am here again, and I’ve got some housekeeping to catch up on.