Yes, I did come back ..

If the only way you know me is through this blog, you might be thinking I decided to stay in Central America. I did come back. Had an amazing time, which you can hear all about by subscribing to The Green Planet Monitor. I'm working on my last story and sending it to Dave, my producer this week. And the, no more trips until Dave and/or I write another grant for another infusion of travel funds.

BTW,the picture above is taken from a mountaintop in Honduras .. I love Honduras .. I need to go back there again. But for a while, I think I'll hang around home a bit more.

I was thinking today about how my life has changed since I began this blog. It was in June of 2005. Marriage had quickly and unexpectedly self-destructed the previous December. My friends Tim and Simone invited me to come down to Bear River, Nova Scotia to get some perspective by the Bay of Fundy. Then, back home to the arduous task of disassembling 20 years of marriage, selling the house, dividing the stuff, yelling at the gods ...

Then, two years of rootlessness. By choice. Summer in Vancouver, the fall in south Asia, back to Hamilton in 2007, where I have been ever since. With some really great trips to Central America, Africa, Nova Scotia again ...

Five years later, reflecting back .. it's been hard. (though I have to say, if your heart has to break, no better place to mend in than in the Himalayas. Or on the Serengeti. Or even having a drink between planes at Heathrow). And, even though I responded by living life large, it still took a long time to be where I am right now ... happy again, making a living, doing work that I love, with lots of people in my life I love and who love me.

It's all working out ... think I'll get back to doing some more writing here .. I've been mostly concentrating on writing material that brings in money. And that's important but so is the stuff I do for myself. So, hi again ... time to get back into the habit of writing just for me. And you, my friends who visit here to see what I'm up to these days ... (though most of you know because you're all on Facebook .. blogs aren't so essential these days. how times change ...)