Maybe I Am Back
Last entry in this space noted that a very long piece was being prepared, about death, The Angel of Death, and the very busy year The Angel had in 2003. That piece promised the full text would appear as an entry, and it even used the word "soon."
Oops.
The Angel of Death piece was visited by The Angel, and now will not appear. Suffice it to say that 2003 was a big year for Death. Celebrities, friends, relatives, and a whole lot of death among friends and relatives of my friends and extended family. Too much death. It got pretty eerie after a while.
Very glad that 2003 is now a memory.
Among the high points of 2003, and also why blog entries have been so few and far between of late: travelled to the UK to visit friends in early December. Came home, got busy as could be, what with year-end stuff, time-sensitive projects, and some personal business.
Then as the holiday season wound up to full-roar it was time to travel the long road south, pick up my kids, come back to NY to spend out holiday time here (and not in Florida, as had been the tradition, but as the kids are now older, the Florida trip makes less sense). Nice to have the kids up here, especially both of them at the same time, which has not been the case so much of late.
Business heated up big time as December tore by. Lots and lots of work to do. Much pressure (time, productivity, communications) and less interactive work-time, what with it being the holidays and fewer people being around. Plus, having the kids here, I wanted some off-time, too . . . to spend with them!
New Year's Eve came, that meant our annual trip to the party we go to in Virginia (D.C. suburbs). Then it was time to bring the kids back to NC, drive back up here, and try to get back into the swing of things.
Not much time, actually, to compose blog entries. Topical ones, particularly.
There are about 15 pieces in some status or another, nearly ready for publication. But that brings up a whole new conundrum.
Do I publish these as DeanLand entries? Do I come up with another blog for thought pieces that are of greater length? Should it be a personal site, as opposed to a blog? Is there really a difference? I've got a few domains lying around doing nothing, should I put them there? And if I do that, should I start some sort of linking campaign, to get them read?
I have pieces on business in general, on the business I am in, on politics, on pop culture, etc. Some have been of such consequence that I've called on others to discuss content, view, perception, and for help in clarifying or stating my theses.
But since being a writer is not my full time vocation (much as I might prefer), it always come second to getting work done. And work, when I can make it happen this way, comes second to family issues. Of course, one must work to feed, clothe and shelter the family.
So there's an update.
Am I back? Not sure. Want to be. But finding the time to sit and compose and feel right about items tobe put out into the blogiverse . . . maybe I take this too seriously.
Your thoughts, comments, ideas, suggestions? I'd love to hear them. You can e-mail me directly, or you can become a member of this blog and then post them here.
Hopefully I will not take another 6 weeks between posts.
This is one of those middle-of-the-night posts. And it does feel kind of nice to blog again.