Why I Hesitate

I haven't written in here for ages for one simple reason. There's just too much! How can I have a simple chat with you now when there's so much ground to cover? New houses, vacations, music, reunions to report on... There's too much pressure to provide details on everything that's happened since May, and it grows worse every day.

So, no updates. I'm just jumping back in. Maybe in time there will be news of the summer, but in the meantime I have only one thing to say. One no-pressure item, completely in passing, that will not set up a brick wall for future posts.

I spent $10 on a single vanilla bean today.

That's it! That's the update you've waited almost three months for. And though it was almost certainly not worth the wait, at least I can write again without that nagging obligation over my head.