So in the nearly six years since I last posted here, I've acquired some kids, a job (and tenure) as a professor, and increasingly strong ambitions to start writing fiction again. I am always at least several weeks behind in keeping up with friends, daily minutiae, etc. I'm sure the same thought would have occurred to anyone: what better time to start a blog? But then it occurred to me: I already had one! Actually, it didn't quite work that way. I had, in fact, completely forgotten that this blog was still up. I did a google search on the name to see if anyone else had claimed it in the interim. And what did I find? I pulled up a blog that looked vaguely familiar, not so much for its content but for the persona behind it - some overambitious, striving young writer who had time to meticulously edit posts, keep up with current events, and embed her posts with lots of links. Frak, I thought, not another one. It was really only after I'd delved reasonably far that I realized that that person was actually ME, six years ago! And while there's much to be said for fresh starts, there's also much to be said for inertia, so I figured that rather than start completely anew I might as well come back and refurbish the place a bit. So I've updated some of the links, removed a couple of posts that seemed outdated, silly, and/or a little "off" in tone (honestly, why did I dislike Mickey Kaus with such intensity?), and ... well, actually that's all I've done, but I am totally thinking about, like, adding graphics and stuff. And possibly linking this to my real name, though for now I think I'll remain identifiable but technically anonymous.
As for my purpose in starting this blog, it's mostly to spur myself to continue working on my novel, partly to collect in one handy place the links I consult daily anyway, and partly to record the usual random observations about the usual topics. And who knows what else? At any rate, I am happy to be back!
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