I have started this blog many times. I have had drafts sitting with only a few starting lines for years. There are documents saved with website plans, and topic brainstorms. But there has always been something holding me back from showing it to the world.

There’s been many things. There are always excuses to not do something.

For me, the easiest excuses have always been time: there’s not enough of it, or I haven’t lived enough of it. Who am I to be talkin’ to people about things? I’m consistently amazed at how far I have gotten through life with the amount of things that I feel like I don’t know.

Yet nonetheless, here I am. Doing more than surviving. I’m definitely on a path. And part of that path is sharing my story with the world.

The other excuse that comes easily to me is that of privacy. I am, despite my general extroversion and bubbliness, a rather private person. Maybe it’s strange, but I find that i am more concerned with privacy from people who I do know (or rather those who I used to know), than from strangers.

I have always been one to want to close my walls to those no longer in my life. My gut instinct is to burn the bridge. But I have come to a point – the point – when I will not let my fears around that keep me back from my path.

So here I am! Again!

I’m trying not to overthink this blog at this moment in time, because I know how easy it is for me to bog myself down by logistics and my own perfectionism, so I can’t tell you what to expect. Maybe I’ll write short form, maybe long form. There may be poems. I might share some of my visual art.

I’m just going to figure it out as I go. Thanks for joining me.