For a long time, I have kept this page empty. I blamed various things: I was busy trying to find work. I was worried about my mother's health.
Then I was busy with work.
Then the 2016 elections happened, and I broke two crowns in frustration and denial and fear for the future.
I had dental work done. I learned how to make a website pretty. I wrote some things to put on this website.
I got a different job and was busier still writing and absorbing, trying to understand all of the outside information the world tried to throw at me.
My corgi became older and frailer. My brain tried to soothe my worries in the face of something inevitable for every living creature.
Frank, my corgi, died on April 16, 2020, age unknown but probably on the tail end of 16 years.
For a few months, in the middle of a global pandemic and country-wide unrest, I couldn't seem to do much of anything extra with my brain.
These few sentences of prose are the first non-work words I've written in over 5 months now.
I am ever the optimist underneath my thin veneer of realism. I hope there is more to come from me for this page in the future.