I'm sitting here staring at an empty blog post for the first time in nearly five years. Same blog, different purpose. Same human, different person. Same operating system, newer MacBook Pro. I never thought this blog would be resurrected, but here we are! It's good to be back composing sentences and paragraphs after the hiatus.
The original purpose of this blog was to fulfill an assignment for M. Shayne Clarke's MCom 320 class that required a blog post every week. The purpose of that class was to stretch our creative writing muscles by forcing us to write something with no prompt or no rubric or specific subject matter. The purpose of this blog now is to continue to stretch the creative thinking and writing muscles that lie dormant in my day-to-day work. Sure, there is a lot of communication in the marketing data science consulting world, but there isn't quite the same freedom to write about critters or wind or french-type fries or music. I also want to have this space to record thoughts and learnings from books I've read, taking after the example of my mother.
Coming back to this blog is like opening a time capsule; these posts are snapshots into my life during that chapter of my life, and I have not gone back and looked at these posts in quite a long time. I'm grateful for the good times as well as the challenges that shaped me during this time. I'm grateful for good friends and good wholesome recreational activities pursued in H1 2021. I no longer play competitive ultimate and instead run trail ultramarathons, I no longer am mired in the world of homework and midterms and instead have a salary and a (soon-to-be vested) 401k, and I no longer drive the iconic Kia Soul with the roof rack and instead drive a matching dark grey RAV4 with Vonda's daughter (although I still have the roof rack and have been slothful in selling it on Marketplace).
So here we go! Here's the first post in five years with a bunch of words and no pictures. I never thought I'd say this, but it feels good to be back
