Ten and a half years since last I blogged. Goodness.
Things have changed. Conrad and I are no longer in Chicago, having moved to Pasadena, CA, ten years ago.
A new job for me, a transfer and then semi-retirement for him. He is well into his 60s. I am in the early years of my fifties. My professional title is now Doctor.
We have Van (and Olive).
Roy died in 2013, Mum died in 2019. There is much more big and small.
Courtney and Robert have been visiting us in the desert this long weekend,
and during our conversations, I shared some old blog links. Someone - one of them, or maybe Van - asked why I wasn’t blogging any longer. The main reason? After Dad died in 2009, I lost steam. It took a while, but I came to a realization that I had been blogging as a way for him, at a long distance from me, to read about my life. And that freed me to stop doing that.
But social media also took over. A Facebook post, a Tweet, and Instagram story - all were so much easier than telling stories here. Less work involved, immediate gratification. New communities that blended old and new people in my life.
In recent times, though, I have suspended all of my social media accounts. Various reasoning. Twitter, for example, is very much not what it was, and I don’t care to support its new regime. The suspensions certainly freed up my time during a tremendously hectic December as well. And then January rolled around, and I found myself not missing all the time I spent on those platforms.
But still, I wanted to share, and somehow tell my stories. So here I am, so many years later. Back for good? Doubtful. Maybe. We’ll see.
A hello, then, to anyone still reading this or stumbling upon it. Food. Travel. Musings. That’s what this will be. An unambiguous blog, a place to share the things I’d like to share.
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