Back with a Vengeance: And The State of Me, Executive Summary

The plan – to begin this anew. We’ll see how it actually comes to fruition, but my hope is to steal coffee time in the morning to pound out some thoughts on a regular basis.

Time was, I used to examine and deliberate every life decision in this forum. Needless to say, that’s been pretty much absent in the past year. There were a couple of posts about my dad last summer, and one odd one during the summer when I suspected (rightly, at the time) a state of depression. Before that, the blog chronicled my unemployment and career change – that that was only monthly during the spring of ’09.

What’s ironic is that – as Sharon & I have discussed – 2009 – 2010 will likely go down as a turning point in our history, when looking back someday. So many things have changed. For me, the period of unemployment was a life-altering event. My wonderful career coaches were making me understand how much, in this life, is really within my control, and I was finally ready to buy into it. The death of my father (predictably, I suppose) not only induced me to re-frame some family considerations, but it also was the tipping point, driving me into a necessary series of appointments with a psychologist, wherein I was able to get my head around few things about myself that maybe I could/should have understood 25 years ago –but hey, better late than never.

And the new job. And the end of theatre and the resurgence of music. And the impending house move-WHA?!?!?!

I will attempt to go back and get into the particulars of these assorted Major Events over the course of the next few weeks.

Stay tuned!