On March 8, I wrote my last blog as I was relaxing on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. I extolled the benefits of being lazy, but assumed I’d get back to the work of reality once we docked in Ft. Lauderdale and headed home.
In a way, I did. I caught up on my job responsibilities, my workouts at the health club, and my piano lessons – all part of my weekly activities. But I didn’t maintain my blogging. I read several books voraciously, one 700 pager in 24 hours and another in less time than that. Author Stieg Larsson cannot be put down. But blogging still held little appeal. On that front, the sea day of March stretched and stretched.
Until today. I noticed two months had passed. And I was struck with the symmetry of taking up the blog again on May 8. In the interim, I’ve been to Bloomington, Indiana, and Rome, Italy. I’ve started reading to four year olds once a week and reworking a book I wrote in the early nineties. Greece has experienced an economic crisis that reverberates throughout the world, and New Orleans is once again impacted by a natural disaster, this time an oozing oil slick. Our president’s ratings are down, but basketball ratings are up. It is, after all, playoff season.
I make no excuses for the recent hiatus, but I admit it feels good to be putting words down again. And, surprise of surprises, I still am in first place if you put my name into that little white field on Google®. Perhaps that’s the greatest motivator of all.
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