Before the beginning

Let's set parameters, if only for this preliminary step before things become involved and run away from the original intent.

This is going to be a repository for events and a forum for issues that I deal with this coming year, between my thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth birthdays. There's so much changing, gelling and revealing itself right now that for the first time in years I feel that keeping a record of the process is in order. I am single again for the first time since late 2002. That's over six years. In a way it's back to square one romantically, but it's also (hopefully) the end of the dry runs. This is where I need to start to really focus on what I'm going to do next, not just romantically, but in terms of career, location, financial situation, everything. So I'm keeping the selection of topics an open one in the expectation that I will be dealing with it all, to some degree or another this year.

Finally, because it has been so long since I've written anything more than emails, this will be a year-long exercise in finding my voice again. I'm quite curious to find out how it has changed since I was 20.