Emotions back within my comfort zone, and posting in public again

Just to lay your fears to rest, and stop the questioning e-mails I have gotten over the last week. I am here, I am breathing, and I am still writing. I have been busy with life and school, and I have been writing things that do not yet need to be in the public domain. Nevertheless, I have been writing!

The emotions are settling again, back down to levels that are far closer to my comfort zone. Much of what I have written over the last few weeks has been angry and filled with raw emotions. Some of it is in response to the past election and the passage of PropH8 in California, some about subjects that are not yet ready to be shared with the world. Writing is my refuge, it always has been, and lately it seems to be the only form of therapy I have left. The weather has turned cold and the landscape has become frozen again which prompted the parking of the motorcycle for the winter. There are no more warm summer days to spend riding wherever those two wheels could take me leaving all my worries and anger behind in a cloud of dust. I do not live close enough to the shores of Lake Superior where I can spend countless hours along its rugged cliffs allowing my emotions to blow away in the cool breeze that never seems to slow. The snow has not piled high enough yet to chase my nephew down the ski slopes and remember what it was like to be carefree in the wintry sunshine of Northern Michigan. This has left me my last vise of writing to keep the mind goblins from taking over my life. It has produced some ranting, angry, and somewhat depressing products but has also allowed me to begin work on another idea I’ve had for a book. It involves a piece I wrote a while back titled The Dream (which can be found in the new Downloads link at the top of this page) and might be more main stream than the first project Unconditional which was primarily written as a 300+ page letter to Jack.

In case you haven’t noticed, I have also been busily working on the update to this blog, hence the new layout and colors. There are still many tweaks to make, and things to adjust for aesthetic reasons, but it is live after weeks of coding and adjusting existing code. There is a post on the main page with a list of all the new features and known issues. If you have suggestions, comments, or bugs please post a comment to that post so that I can resolve them quickly.