On Returning
On Returning
Returning Again, Maybe.
This blog thing started back in 2006 when I moved to Madrid on a Fulbright. At first it was a way to keep my family updated with my life abroad. As it turns out, they weren't much interested. Later it became a space for the jotting of notes, observations about travel, ramblings on music and (occasionally) movies, and short story sketches. In a sense it became less a blog and more a writer's open notebook. And this was good, for me at least. It was a way to keep writing.
But sometimes that notebook must be closed.
And for the last seven months I have been away. Life. It's been a journey (as cliché as that sounds). I toyed with the idea of starting another blog, one that is more about confessing and atoning, but that project too lies in near abandonment.
But I think it's time to come back. At least tentatively.
We'll see.
Current projects:
#1 Finish book proposal for my scholarly book project.
#2 Update my photos online and consolidate website.
Three favorite albums from this past year (so far):
The Walkmen, Lisbon.
Deerhunter, Halcyon Digest.
The National, High Violet.
Saturday, November 13, 2010