Comeback

From an awesome trip we took in the last year
that I may or may not tell you about someday.

I'm coming back-really and truly-and aiming for one post per week.  Not that you need to know that, but putting it out there might help me focus in a bit.  I've been struggling with my online presence over the past year: how much of myself or my family I really want to put out there in the world; respecting my son's growing need for privacy and not having his life exposed for the entertainment/sentimentality of his mother before he ever gets a chance to define his own online presence; and living life from a first-person perspective-being present while not always thinking about how I'm going to cast "this thing I'm doing" on my blog.  And in many ways, the past year without blogging has been very freeing, of my time and how I interact with the world.  On the other hand, I love writing, I love telling stories, and many of my past posts have captured events, for me, that I would otherwise have forgotten.  I didn't come up with any grand theories about how to balance stories/privacy/presence but I think that if I practice enough, I can figure it out or at least find something I can live with.  So I'm going to try to get back to telling the stories I want to tell and starting the conversations that interest me and see what happens.  Because, to loosely quote (my favorite movie) Joe vs. The Volcano, "that's life, right? you jump and you see."