I’ve thought about this for a while now, and I feel like I need to start writing again. A lot has happened in the past few years that has affected my writing and my ability to express myself.
Here are a few things that have happened:
- I worked with a technology company in their retail stores and I followed their social-networking policies to the tee, enough to have me stop blogging altogether as work consumed my life.
- I worked briefly for a friend as a IT Consultant for a bit, honing my skills as a trainer, consultant, and web development.
- Became unemployed, and tried to support myself through freelance IT consulting, web-development, and any design work that came my way.
- Sometime through all this, I started to use sex and drugs (specifically crystal meth) as a means to forget my troubles, and as a means to work harder and longer. I reached a bottom I did not expect to hit.
- Got sober. Today, I am grateful for over a year of sobriety, and I try to work a program of honesty and integrity.
In the interim, I have used Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Posterous, and FourSquare to keep myself connected online and to the world. But I had not been compelled to sit down and write down words to a blog entry until now.
I thought about this only because I was at Tomatillos in East Atlanta last Thursday, eating their Chicken Crack Empanadas, waiting to meet a new sponsee to go to an AA meeting on that side of town. The narrative for what I was doing at the time came out, but I realized that I no longer had a place to post it on. I felt like I was censoring myself again when I found myself wondering if I should even mention the sponsee, or that I found the idea of Chicken Crack Empanadas funny, and that I was even going to AA.
I started this blog when I was in high school, with the intention that I would be honest with that was happening in my life. It helped me come out of my shell, and deal with losses in my life. I got caught up with trying to define myself as a food blog, or a photography blog, or just one where I could post about crazy photos, news, and videos. But the thing I missed most of all was the writing.
This is my first true honest blog post in a very long time.
