after all these years

What is it that stops someone who loves to write from doing so? Better yet, what impels her to begin again?

This is a new blog. I'm not even certain it will take but that's the nature of experimentation. You see, I began another in 2005 and seem to have abandoned it in 2011. Perhaps I just needed to shift my focus outward for a while. I still have a couple of drafts yet to be posted there...occasional attempts to reenter that sphere.

Blogging for me is an inside job and that paralleled my life nicely when I began floodgate in what turned out to be the year my mother died. I was fairly prolific, until I wasn't.

Through many iterations since then I've limited my private my musings to patient friends, and many of my deepest-held thoughts have never made it to the page in any form. I won't revisit those here or look back that much. At least for now, I'm starting fresh and from a different vantage point. I do, however, reserve the right to go back and forth between the two sites. After all, none of us is one-dimensional, agreed? 

I'm not writing to impress (hardly) or to score points. I'm writing to explore, evoke, and express. That, and to connect. All contribute to hardiness, by the way. More about that another time. Meanwhile, call me selfish. 

So a new forum has emerged. Same voice. Different place. Different take? Perhaps. We'll see.

Welcome to the slow lane. I hope you'll come back soon...adding your own two cents.